The Way to Stop Trump | by David Cole | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

The Way to Stop Trump | by David Cole | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books:

The risks are almost certainly greater than those posed by any prior American president...

Whether Trump will actually try to implement these promises, and more importantly, whether he will succeed if he does try, lies as much in our hands as in his.

...if we now and for the next four years insist that he honor our most fundamental constitutional values, including equality, human dignity, fair process, privacy, and the rule of law, and if we organize and advocate in defense of those principles, he can and will be contained.

I worry about this point. If Trump learns the art of spy-ops as taught by Putin's Russia, we will have a hard time.

Americans did not sit back and accept that the executive [under G.W. Bush] was above the law... they protested, filed lawsuits, wrote human rights reports, lobbied foreign audiences and governments to bring pressure to bear on the United States, leaked classified documents, and broadly condemned the administration’s actions as violations of fundamental constitutional and human rights.

Bush did not introduce these reforms because he came to realize his wrongs... But Bush was nonetheless checked—by American civil society, international criticism, and, for the first time in history, the Court and Congress.

Obama’s troubling use of drones to engage in secret targeted killing far from any battlefield leaves Trump an extremely dangerous weapon.

I'll stop quoting. Please go read the entire article.