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What is really disturbing to me.
What really disturbs me is that the executive is using a "crisis" to extend its powers at the expense of the other branches of government. Other republics have given absolute power to leaders in timesof crisis. Rome gave up its powers to a "dictator." Athens gave its powers to a "tyrant." Eventually both of these republics lost their self-governing powers to a single person. Has this lesson been learned?