These scholars pointed to other Trump actions they say blatantly broke the law, such as freezing trillions of dollar in federal spending and dismissing members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), even though they were confirmed by the Senate and had several years left in their terms.
“Without any doubt Donald Trump is the most lawless and scofflaw president we have ever seen in the history of the United States,” said Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars and a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.
Tribe said Trump has carried out “a blitzkrieg on the law and the constitution. The very fact that the illegal actions have come out with the speed of a rapidly firing Gatling gun makes it very hard for people to focus on any one of them. That’s obviously part of the strategy.”
This is what he learned in the 8 years since he was first elected. That laws aren’t real and no one wants to enforce then. When you impeach someone twice and nothing of consequence happens, of course they stop fearing consequence.
Also, the dude isn’t going to live much longer. He probably figured he’d turn the crazy up to 11 and tear off the knob, because why the hell not?
He learned his lesson, just not the one anyone wanted him to learn.
This is why I take a behavioral science lens to so much of politics. They will learn the lesson you teach them. This is why principles are so important and shouldn’t be partisan or ignored.
It’s so simple that it’s kind of maddening that so few people get it.