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IS THIS CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS A SIGN THAT DEMOCRACY IS BEING THREATENED?

The USA has worked well since 1776 because the framers of the Constitution were wise enough to establish a government with a separation of powers: legislative branch makes laws, judicial branch interprets laws and executive branch enforces laws.  But the Constitution can be upheld only if these three are independent from each other.  For the first time ever in our history, we have a president who does all three whenever he wants, has one branch ( the U.S. Congress ) afraid to defy him, and the third ( Supreme Court ) which has already ruled that a sitting president can do anything and be free from prosecution.  Democrats and the public are useless in any defense, so President Donald Trump now rules like a dictator. There is one delay in the system.  A judiciary which has checked Trump.  But only temporarily, for anything Trump does not like gets eventually appealed to the Supreme Court.  The next few months will determine if the USA is in a constitutional c...