We need more than Obama. We need those who represent us at all levels in government to unite, understanding the risks at hand, and fight back.
“We’re not there yet completely, but I think that we are dangerously close to normalizing behavior like that. And we need people both outside government and inside government saying, ‘Let’s not go over that cliff because it’s hard to recover.’”
He went on to say:
Democracy, Mr. Obama said, requires government workers, judges and lawyers at the Justice Department to uphold the Constitution and follow the law.
“It requires them to take that oath seriously, and when that isn’t happening we start drifting into something that is not consistent with American democracy […]” he said.