Robert Reich: “The power of the presidency not only to move markets but also to unleash a hailstorm of criticism against individuals…”

Trump's attempted takeover of the U.S. government is itself part of a larger strategy to replace American democracy with an oligarchy.

We’re not going to tolerate taking money from Medicaid, and food stamps, and nutrition, and possibly from Medicare as well, to give a big tax cut to the richest people in America when they’ve never been as rich.

Cruelty will be the word most used to define it.

He is the bully-in-chief. He doesn’t know how to act other than bullying.