Jeff Merkley of Oregon gave address to make case that president is āviolating the lawā through authoritarianism
Oregonās Jeff Merkley gave a marathon, nearly 23-hour speech on the Senate floor that began on Tuesday and ended late Wednesday, pressing the case that Donald Trump is acting as an authoritarian by prosecuting political enemies and deploying the military into Merkleyās home town of Portland.
The 68-year-old senator began speaking around 6.20pm on Tuesday evening and continued until just after 5pm on Wednesday. Standing continuously on the Senate floor alongside placards that read āauthoritarianism is here now!ā and āTrump is violating the lawā, Merkley paused only to take questions from fellow Democratic senators who joined him in the chamber to make their own points about the presidentās conduct.
āIāve come to the Senate floor tonight to ring the alarm bells. Weāre in the most perilous moment, the biggest threat to our republic since the civil war. President Trump is shredding our constitution,ā Merkley said as he began his speech.
The liberals are proud to watch their liberal democracy die as fascist break every form of āprocessā that they care for so much. Instead of realizing that the rules are no longer being followed and fighting back they would much rather go down with the ship and do useless things like this so that history can say āthe were honorableā.
They care so little about the actual material outcome (because they believe it wonāt actually impact them personally) that they have somehow convinced themselves that defending āthe processā of a liberal democracy is better than actually trying to stop it from dying.
Your comment does a great job of explaining this. I think without you even being aware of it. Youāre delusional if you think they are doing this for any future āofficial actā. There are no future acts. They are going down with their ship and will bend the knee to the fascist in time. Accepting the new āprocessā to defend. Because they have nothing else they believe in but āthe processā.
Seriously, if you think the liberals in Washington are fighting back and āplanningā with stuff like this - you are not paying attention. They are playing their role to make you feel as if something is being done in resistance. Wake up.