{"id":8848,"date":"2020-01-31T06:26:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=8848"},"modified":"2020-01-31T06:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:26:50","slug":"american-teleology-future-always-dystopia-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8848","title":{"rendered":"American teleology, future (always) dystopia, madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jan\/30\/trump-impeachment-trial-witnesses-block-vote-mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lead prosecutor in the case, the House manager Adam Schiff, warned that the Republicans\u2019 unified determination to protect Trump instead of collecting evidence was paving the way toward a presidency unbound by congressional oversight or any other checks and balances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have seen in the past few days is a descent into constitutional madness, because that way madness lies,\u201d Schiff said, comparing the Republican position to Richard Nixon\u2019s infamous defense of his conduct in the Watergate scandal: \u201cWhen the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatergate is now 40, 50 years behind us,\u201d said Schiff. \u201cHave we learned nothing in the last half-century? Have we learned nothing at all? We are right back to where we were a half-century ago, and we may even be in a worse place because this time that argument may succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the normalization of lawlessness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: The lead prosecutor in the case, the House manager Adam Schiff, warned that the Republicans\u2019 unified determination to protect Trump instead of collecting evidence was paving the way toward a presidency unbound by congressional oversight or any other checks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8848\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}