The Next Republican President
By Thom Hartmann
“ Precedent ” sounds boring and wonky . In reality , it ’ s the way past criminal Republican presidents have taught those who followed them to break the law .
This is the shocking story of how Republican presidents taught each other to break the law , and how — if Trump isn ’ t prosecuted — the next Republican president will try to end democracy in the USA .
Trump has broken multiple past presidential precedents and established entirely new ones that — unless they ’ re punished and outlawed — provide a template for the next Republican president who wants to turn America into a strongman oligarchy like Hungary or Turkey .
And given the rhetoric coming out of the GOP ’ s frontrunners for 2024 , we should be seriously concerned about that as a future near-certainty .
Precedents are critical things , and , when they ’ re established , they quickly become norms unless they ’ re stopped cold :