Well, like a cult leader, he only allows people near him (or to remain near him anyway) who will be slavishly loyal. To anyone else, it's "you're fired!" and then lots of nasty tweets. So, if there's a lesson in all this for anyone watching, in their normal life: if you ever have a position of power (even director of dog catching for a small town), make sure you have people near you who can tell you when you're off base. Smart, fair people who aren't afraid to talk to you.
"No matter how burned-out we feel, we should be as disgusted by Trump pressuring foreign powers to investigate his rivals as we are disgusted that Stephen Miller has a girlfriend. Threats don’t have to be spelled out to be threats: 'Hey, tiny country, please look into my rivals' isn’t an innocent request any more than 'Nice pizza joint, shame if anything happened to it' is a simple flattering Yelp review." —Samantha Bee
There will always be people like that. It just rarely happen that they get to be POTUS. I think the other lesson is if you face a person in power (said your boss) that demand loyalty, don’t walk, run away. A person that has loyalty to someone that demand it has chosen to be imprisoned. Has no more boundary of their own, including moral, ethics and personal boundary. Free thoughts and will are buried. There is no freedom. I find it’s amazingly sad that people would give up so much because of some intoxicated admiration or inescapable duty toward the person. Cohen when he broke free from the bondage and was facing jail time said he was finally free.
Dems are trying too hard right now. If they don’t get him, then it backfires and sets the party back.
There are some in trump's admin that are driven by integrity... here's one, Ellen Weintraub, FEC Chair...
You setup a standard to fail. There is no "getting him" as long as the GOP betray laws and the Constitution, which is highly likely the case (although not as likely as last week - there is a slimmer of hope that they will wake up). The country is set back, but then.... we all hope, at least we the people that care about laws and our Constitution and accountability and anti-corruption.... vote out all these people that betray the country. Defeat un-accountability, lawlessness, corruption or live within it... It's our choice.
That there are Republicans even considering this is a very big step. For those who remember no Congressional Democrats supported the impeachment of Bill Clinton and there was even one house Republican who joined Democrats in opposing Clinton's impeachment. Given that Justin Amash left the party because he believed so strongly that Trump should be impeached and that many Republicans out of office have already said that shows that support among Republicans is far from monolithic. These small changes could be the pebbles that start a landslide.
