MedPage Today February 13, 2025
— If medical associations won’t take a stand, we must
Former President Barack Obama once said, “elections have consequences.” But historically, the consequences tend to be less dramatic than supporters of the winning candidate hoped for — and less than opponents feared. That’s because the American system of government, driven by the principles laid out in the U.S. Constitution, explicitly establishes checks and balances designed to shield us from the domination of extremists of any political stripe.
And for well over 200 years, those principles have held. But since the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, the country is facing an existential crisis of Constitutional fragilityopens in a new tab or window across every aspect of government and governing in...
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