A Moment Of Clarity: "Let's not pretend! They're jeopardizing the rule of law!"

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Michael Steele explores the fragility of the rule of law in today's world. He delves into the systemic challenges facing our legal frameworks, the rise of authoritarianism, and the historical precedents that echo our current political climate.

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0:00.0	And now for a moment of clarity.
0:05.0	It is the entire rule of law that they are systematically jeopardizing.
0:12.0	This is all, Michael, by design.
0:14.0	Well, it is. And it still stuns me that people walk around this town and in halls around the country, pretending as if
0:24.2	that's not what it is.
0:26.1	And it very much, Christy, goes to the heart of what you spent years in public service
0:31.8	doing, upholding that very, very fine line between the rule of law and anarchy, the rule in law and oligarchy,
0:41.9	the rule of law and what we see happening right now with authoritarianism. How did it come to this?
0:49.6	How did we so easily allow this to break given given what we know historically and what we've seen
0:59.4	play out in prior administrations from Nixon and teapot dome controversy and all the other
1:06.5	times where our government um you know got a little bit bigger than his britches, as my mom would say from time to time.
1:14.2	How do we allow this to break like this?
1:17.3	Catch Michael Steele on The Weeknight, Monday through Friday at 7 Eastern on MSNBC.

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