Don’t describe Donald Trump as a “lame duck” president, MS NOW anchor Ali Velshi urged this weekend.
Velshi warned that “headline after headline” now frames Trump by way of the time period that’s “meant to convey a president not in search of reelection who will take away themselves from energy after the subsequent election with diminished authority and waning affect over the federal government, its establishments, and their very own celebration.”
He added, “Besides that is Donald Trump and attempting to squeeze his authoritarian impulses into outdated classes doesn’t simply misdiagnose the second, it normalizes his presidency.”
Then, Velshi argued, “Trump is an authoritarian who can’t be understood by way of conventional presidential frameworks,” earlier than including, “If Trump behaves nothing like several prior lame duck or any president we’ve ever seen, it’s maybe higher to not analyze his conduct by way of that lens.”
He went on to say, “Considering of Trump as a lame duck minimizes” all the harm he has completed throughout his presidency.
“We’re not watching a traditional presidency supposedly wind down,” he mentioned. “We’re watching a presidency outlined by its contempt for democratic order.”