TRUMP: Bad Policy vs. Constitutional Crisis

Repeal and replace, immigration, travel ban, deregulation, etc., is simply awful, terrible, no-good, harmful legislation. It is worth being a regular pain in the ass to your congressional representatives if not actually crossing the line to non-cooperation, civil disobedience, and possibly even non-violent resistance for sufficiently egregious, unjust, laws to obstruct their intent.

None of this rises to the level of a constitutional crisis so long as the Trump regime continues to obey court orders.

And, in a constitutional crisis, those same tools of resistance are available. In accordance with America's founding, even violence may be on the table as a last resort.

But for religious, ethical, and even pragmatic reasons I renounce violence (including non-lethal violence and at least private property destruction - though there may be times when symbolic public property destruction in the context of civil disobedience, as in the Catonsville Nine case).

BUT AT THE LEVEL OF TRIAGE, it is important to distinguish AND TREAT AS PRIMARY Trump's attempted monopolization of truth, his violations of the Emoluments Clause, and Russia's assault on western democratic institutions - including the American election in which the Trump campaign, knowingly or unknowingly, intentional or inadvertently, may have been played as an asset of a Russian intelligence operation.

Bad legislation can and has been overturned in America's history.

But our current constitutional crisis is, I believe, at a level America has not seen since the Civil War.

And for my skeptical friends, such as John Christman, I'll keep praying for you (and begging your indulgence.) :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catonsville_Nine