Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) on Sunday warned of a threat posed by President Trump, saying that the current government shutdown is “part of a larger threat to us all.”
O’Rourke, writing in a post on Medium, suggested that the shutdown may have been “intended to happen” because Trump faces a number of dilemmas, including special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s election interference and a tumbling stock market.
“But my concern for the country goes beyond the immediate pain and dysfunction that this shutdown will cause. Beyond even ensuring that this President is held accountable. What’s happening now is part of a larger threat to us all,” he wrote.
He added that “if there’s no way to count on government even functioning (three shutdowns this year alone), then perhaps ultimately we become open to something else.”
“Whatever we choose to call it, whether we openly acknowledge it at all, my fear is that we will choose certainty, strength and predictability over this constant dysfunction, even if it comes at the price of our democracy (the press; the ballot box; the courts; congress and representative government),” he wrote.- READ MORE