Don’t describe Donald Trump as a “lame duck” president, MS NOW anchor Ali Velshi urged this weekend.
Velshi warned that “headline after headline” now frames Trump by way of the time period that’s “meant to convey a president not in search of reelection who will take away themselves from energy after the following election with diminished authority and waning affect over the federal government, its establishments, and their very own get together.”
“Besides that is Donald Trump and making an attempt to squeeze his authoritarian impulses into outdated classes doesn’t simply misdiagnose the second, it normalizes his presidency,” he mentioned.
“Trump is an authoritarian who can’t be understood via conventional presidential frameworks,” Velshi argued. “If Trump behaves nothing like every prior lame duck or any president we’ve ever seen, it’s maybe higher to not analyze his habits via that lens.”
“Considering of Trump as a lame duck minimizes” the entire harm he has finished throughout his president, he added. “We’re not watching a standard presidency supposedly wind down. We’re watching a presidency outlined by its contempt for democratic order.”
