Jeff Merkley of Oregon gave address to make case that president is ‘violating the law’ through authoritarianism
Oregon’s Jeff Merkley gave a marathon, nearly 23-hour speech on the Senate floor that began on Tuesday and ended late Wednesday, pressing the case that Donald Trump is acting as an authoritarian by prosecuting political enemies and deploying the military into Merkley’s home town of Portland.
The 68-year-old senator began speaking around 6.20pm on Tuesday evening and continued until just after 5pm on Wednesday. Standing continuously on the Senate floor alongside placards that read “authoritarianism is here now!” and “Trump is violating the law”, Merkley paused only to take questions from fellow Democratic senators who joined him in the chamber to make their own points about the president’s conduct.
“I’ve come to the Senate floor tonight to ring the alarm bells. We’re in the most perilous moment, the biggest threat to our republic since the civil war. President Trump is shredding our constitution,” Merkley said as he began his speech.
The liberals are proud to watch their liberal democracy die as fascist break every form of “process” that they care for so much. Instead of realizing that the rules are no longer being followed and fighting back they would much rather go down with the ship and do useless things like this so that history can say “the were honorable”.
They care so little about the actual material outcome (because they believe it won’t actually impact them personally) that they have somehow convinced themselves that defending “the process” of a liberal democracy is better than actually trying to stop it from dying.
Your comment does a great job of explaining this. I think without you even being aware of it. You’re delusional if you think they are doing this for any future “official act”. There are no future acts. They are going down with their ship and will bend the knee to the fascist in time. Accepting the new “process” to defend. Because they have nothing else they believe in but “the process”.
Seriously, if you think the liberals in Washington are fighting back and “planning” with stuff like this - you are not paying attention. They are playing their role to make you feel as if something is being done in resistance. Wake up.