Mike Barnicle: ‘We Are Seemingly Slow Walking Ourselves Toward Autocracy’

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BARNICLE: “And I have the awful feeling, for the first time in my life, Jon Meacham, that we are seemingly slow-walking ourselves toward autocracy. That we are slow-walking ourselves at a moment in time when every American family has their own issues, they’re worried about college tuitions, they’re worried about their high school kids, they’re worried about the jobs they have, the money they make. They worry about inflation, the stock market collapse to some extent. But behind all of that screen of everyday problems that people face, we have a potential conflict between a piece of paper that people died for 250 years ago. The piece of paper is called the Constitution of the United States of America. And it seems to me now we are hours, perhaps days away from a confrontation, Donald Trump versus the Constitution of the United States."