God, this post really lives up to “everything is horrible”. Heads, you win. Tails, we lose. But I think you’re right. This is a downward turn for our country even if Democrats gain power. Flirting with dictatorship dirties us all.
I find this essay helpful in that it introduces the idea of a systemic problem, wider, bigger, and taller than Trump.
Although there is some pleasure in reading of the daily fisticuffs and who won what round, we do need to remember there has been no reparations for centuries of slavery, or for a vast land claimed by massacring almost all aboriginals.
The calm normalizing of nuclear bombs on Japan, training death squads in Fort Benning Georgia for use in south and Central America, and the unthinkable use of starvation and fire bombing hospitals in Gaza…
Our normalization of these things I am sure is based in The lack of even talking about reparations for past atrocities, which cheaply gained us so much national wealth.
By now I doubt any of them could avoid prosecution from an Executive branch interested in doing so.
Trump too has committed multiple crimes; contempt, kidnapping, accepting bribes, etc.
I can imagine no world in which Trump allows the criminal justice system to have power over him again.
In other words, Trump is a cornered animal as the nasty effects of his policies manifest (and even if every Trump admin EO was rescinded today, it would be 6-12 weeks before relief arrived) who is going to face the mob with pitchforks in their hands.
As long as Trump continued to grift in such a wife open and egregious fashion (see $Trump crypto, Gold Visas, "inauguration" funds and, quite alarmingly, Don Jr's Kalshi, etc.), I don't see how his accumulated wealth doesn't mostly insulate him from prosecution. This despite the best efforts of our champions of it like Alvin Braggs, Letitia Jameses and Juan Merchans. He's much more likely to land back in the cushy comfort of courtrooms presided over by the Aileen Cannons, Samuel Alitos and Clarence Thomases, who are more than eager to shield him from all comers.
If Confederate leaders had been executed for treason instead of being allowed to insidiously wormed their way back into government while spawning hateful future generations that produced the likes of that Grand Old Racist Strom Thurmond, we might have had a different country today. It's easy enough to speculate in hindsight though. Who knows.
Even many of the Nazis were found to be extremely useful to the America of the future in our space race, for example. Accountability is not our strong suit.
God, this post really lives up to “everything is horrible”. Heads, you win. Tails, we lose. But I think you’re right. This is a downward turn for our country even if Democrats gain power. Flirting with dictatorship dirties us all.
Yeah; sorry about that. It’s very been feeling pretty glum this week.
I find this essay helpful in that it introduces the idea of a systemic problem, wider, bigger, and taller than Trump.
Although there is some pleasure in reading of the daily fisticuffs and who won what round, we do need to remember there has been no reparations for centuries of slavery, or for a vast land claimed by massacring almost all aboriginals.
The calm normalizing of nuclear bombs on Japan, training death squads in Fort Benning Georgia for use in south and Central America, and the unthinkable use of starvation and fire bombing hospitals in Gaza…
Our normalization of these things I am sure is based in The lack of even talking about reparations for past atrocities, which cheaply gained us so much national wealth.
Trump and his cabinet of people chosen because none of them thought they knew better than Don Jr.'s father ( https://fox59.com/news/national-world/trump-jr-i-want-people-who-dont-think-they-know-better-than-father-in-cabinet/ ) began committing crimes right away.
By now I doubt any of them could avoid prosecution from an Executive branch interested in doing so.
Trump too has committed multiple crimes; contempt, kidnapping, accepting bribes, etc.
I can imagine no world in which Trump allows the criminal justice system to have power over him again.
In other words, Trump is a cornered animal as the nasty effects of his policies manifest (and even if every Trump admin EO was rescinded today, it would be 6-12 weeks before relief arrived) who is going to face the mob with pitchforks in their hands.
That will be a grim confrontation.
As long as Trump continued to grift in such a wife open and egregious fashion (see $Trump crypto, Gold Visas, "inauguration" funds and, quite alarmingly, Don Jr's Kalshi, etc.), I don't see how his accumulated wealth doesn't mostly insulate him from prosecution. This despite the best efforts of our champions of it like Alvin Braggs, Letitia Jameses and Juan Merchans. He's much more likely to land back in the cushy comfort of courtrooms presided over by the Aileen Cannons, Samuel Alitos and Clarence Thomases, who are more than eager to shield him from all comers.
If Confederate leaders had been executed for treason instead of being allowed to insidiously wormed their way back into government while spawning hateful future generations that produced the likes of that Grand Old Racist Strom Thurmond, we might have had a different country today. It's easy enough to speculate in hindsight though. Who knows.
Even many of the Nazis were found to be extremely useful to the America of the future in our space race, for example. Accountability is not our strong suit.