Alexander Vindman: ‘There Has Been Some Slippage’ With Our Democracy

Unfortunately, we are still sliding towards authoritarianism.  The special professional gerrymandering done under Tom DeLay still threatens to turn the House back Republican and the Republican Census gains threaten the slim Senate majority of the Democrats.  There is only this short respite in time against the total collapse of the "American Experiment".  The courts are mangled and their abilities are spotty in any effort to preserve the U.S. Constitutional law. 

Government agencies have been stripped of much of their expertise sending us spiraling towards chaos and therefore undermining the stability needed to support a highly technological society.  As such, under such conditions, many of our expected social "norms" will be impacted with frustratingly horrifying results.  My best guess is that Putin, with his state-funded intelligence resources, saw this racial/white supremacist vector as a highly destabilizing "punch" that our democratic republic would be unable to effectively deal with because of an inability to reign in white advantages/privileges.  Despite the tepid rejection of Donald J. Trump, an avowed Klan-raised white supremacist,  the danger marches on as exhibited by the hamstrung legislature only able to act unilaterally with only minimal cross-aisle support, if any at all.