The office of the presidency is a sacred trust and reducing public confidence in that office, making that office almost a vulgar, kind of a vulgar and demeaning position, is a long-term cost potentially to this country and this society.
Reich expresses concern about the impact of Trump's actions on public confidence in the presidency.
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If and when he does, we'll be in a constitutional crisis that should cause every American to take to the streets.
He’s exactly right. And this is a time for people to say, 'No,' in a very mass way.
When they talk of ‘personal liberties and free markets’ they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.