tyranny

With Republicans in the majority in Congress and unwilling to cross President Donald Trump, the job of containing Trump’s incipient tyranny falls to three groups: the nation’s judges, its independent press and a few state governments. Which is why Trump is escalating attacks on all three...

Filibuster Vs. tyranny of the mob. Filibusters defend the rights of minority parties against mob tyranny. I am not opposed to filibusters’ worthy purposes but they should not stand alone as an unlimited absolute. Protection of minority rights should not require tolerating minorities’ eternally...

Certainly not the only variable. http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2013/01/can-.html