Harvard Professor Issues Stark ‘Virus’ Summary Of America | EUROtoday

Harvard constitutional legislation professor Laurence Tribe warned this weekend that America’s democratic foundations are being eroded not by a single explosive disaster however by a gradual, insidious decay that’s now rushing up beneath President Donald Trump.

Speaking to MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, Tribe cautioned in opposition to ready for a dramatic turning level. “Looking for an explosion, a kind of moment of crisis ― what physicists like to call a singularity in a kind of unique episode of presidential defiance of a court order ― that’s misleading,” he stated. “It frames what we are experiencing in the wrong way.”

Tribe cited T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men”: “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.”

“For years, we have allowed the body politic to be hollowed out by a virus,” he stated. “A virus that attacks the very foundations of the rule of law on which the government really rests. It’s a virus we have to fight with all our energy, without waiting for just the right moment. You know, it’s a disease if you think about it.”

That illness, Tribe stated, “reached fever pitch around the Jan. 6 insurrection,” when Trump escaped penalties. Now, the scenario throughout Trump’s second time period has deteriorated to the purpose the place even unbiased judges can’t “fully keep pace with the mayhem.”

“So that’s what we’re facing,” Tribe concluded. “Looking for the moment of crisis is like looking for the shiny object and taking our eyes off the disease that is spreading and that we really have to fight, the virus we need to fight.”