It is increasingly becoming clearer that the lever that turns the engines of democracy is less and less dependent on the transparency, fairness, and openness of the electoral process and more and more on the perception, courage, discipline and honesty of the players of the bruising game called politics.
The sad truth is that there is no form of government open to free societies today that is more dependent on the discipline, trust and care of its practitioners than democracy. The playwright, Sam Shepard, once said ‘’democracy is a fragile thing, as soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn to scare tactics, it is no longer democracy, is it?
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Iâm Haunted by What I Did as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department
No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit. We owe the country our honesty about what we saw â and should do in the future.
By Erica Newland
Dec. 20, 2020
 Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
I was an attorney at the Justice Department when Donald Trump was elected president. I worked in the Office of Legal Counsel, which is where presidents turn for permission slips that say their executive orders and other contemplated actions are lawful. I joined the department during the Obama administration, as a career attorney whose work was supposed to be independent of politics.