Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports as Republican President Donald Trump again verbally trashes the U.S. Constitution, both National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and the public - in a new poll by the Pew Research Center, are calling him out for what he is - a serious threat to Democracy. Shuler says Trump is an “autocrat” and the people are telling pollsters he is a “dangerous dictator.” “We do not fall in line for autocrats,” declared Shuler. And both Shuler and the people who talk to pollsters give the same reasons: Trump’s defiance of Congress and the Courts; his high-handedness and hate; the arrogance of Trump’s partner Elon Musk, and multi-billionaire Musk’s chainsaw aimed at Federal Workers and programs. After 100 days into his second term in the Oval Office, Trump has set off a firestorm, though not among White Evangelicals and Congressional Republicans, when he told NBC-TV Meet The Press interviewer Kristen Welker “I don’t know” that citizens and non-citizens enjoy equal rights under the Constitution - or that he, as President, should follow the Constitution. It is the first time in history that a President has publicly refused to say he considers that document the law he must follow, despite having pledged to do so in his oath when he took office.

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