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Today is June 21st, 2023, and American democracy remains in crisis.

The evidence of this is from today's lead of the New York Times.

Let me read from it.

Donald J. Trump has promised that if he wins back to presidency, he will appoint a special prosecutor to, quote, go after, end quote, President Biden and his family.

But he's not the only Republican running for president who appears to be abandoning long-established norms in Washington.

Presidents keeping their hands out of specific Justice Department investigations and prosecutions. Mr. Trump, who leaves the GOP field by

around 30 percentage points in national public polls, yields such powerful influence that only a few of his Republican rivals are willing to

clearly say presidents should not interfere in such Justice Department decisions. After Mr. Trump's

vow to direct the Justice Department to appoint a, quote, real, end quote, prosecutor to investigate the Bidens.

The New York Times asked each of his Republican rival's questions aimed at laying out what limits, if any,

they believed presidents must or should respect when it comes to White House interference with federal law enforcement

decisions. The incredible aspect about the New York Times question, of course, is that it's

taken until 2023 for them to ask anybody in the Republican Party the question,

because the assault against the rule of law has been ongoing for seven years.

But at any rate, the New York Times has finally asked the question,

better late than never, as they say.

Let's continue reading, though, another remarkable paragraph that highlights the extremism

that has taken root fully in the Republican Party.

According to the New York Times, the Republican candidates, quote, responses reveal a party that has turned so hard against federal law enforcement that it is no longer widely considered good politics to clearly answer in the negative a question that was once uncontroversial.

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