Jon Meacham: J.D. Vance Might Be ‘Setting a Predicate’ to Break Apart This Constitutional System of Checks and Balances

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MEACHAM: “You know, as John Belushi, that great political scientist, said, we did not give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, that said, the thing that is the most troubling to me in the past x number of days was the vice president weighing in in that way, because it felt to me -- and I hope I pray that I'm wrong -- it felt to me as if it might be setting a predicate, a predicate for the kind of showdown that would potentially, potentially, break apart this constitutional system of checks and balances.”