Zakaria: My ‘Real Fear’ Is Trump Will ‘Fight Dirty’ If the Probe Yields Something

RUSH EXCERPT:
ZAKARIA: "Trump appears less likely to follow the Reagan model. He is a fighter, but more importantly, he does not have much regard for these independent institutions that make up the American system. Whether they be courts and judges, government agencies and the free press, trump has always viewed them simply as obstacles in the way of him winning. As he said on Thursday, we are winners, and we are going to fight. For trump, winning justifies everything. When the conservative editorial board of the “Wall Street journal” asked him days after his election if some of his campaign rhetoric had gone too far, his response was simple and telling. No, I won. In other words, the ends justified the means. But liberal democracy is premised on the notion that the ends do not justify the means. That respecting the institutions, norms, and procedures of the American system of government is more important than winning. Even if you are the president. My real fear is not that the investigations will yield something. It is that if the investigations yield something, Donald Trump’s response might be to fight and fight dirty. No matter the cost to American democracy."