CNN CNN Special Report November 28, 2019 04:53:00
Undertaken as a great act of public education about the specifics of this case, but also about the american system of checks and balances. a democracy can turn into a tyranny not all at once with a bang, but over time. officials even elected, even popular, can simply weaken and then dispense with constitutional constraints or legislative checks. liberty is eroded slowly but irreversib irreversibly. germany's weimar republics with a well functioning liberal democracy, and within a few short years using legal processes, it become a totalitarian declaration tatership. in the long history of the w...