The siege against core values worsens by NOT prosecuting calculated, sneering subversion of laws Amidst the ever-sprawling, incendiary investigations of Trump’s criminality, reactionaries caution that any indictments of an ex-president – whether guilty as hell or not – send America into banana republic spirals of descent. As when tin-pot potentates appoint servile judges who prompt courts to shred the opposition and oppress the people? Does such fear-mongering against simply enforcing the law not award popular demagogues automatic immunity, however infamous? Indictment and conviction are the only bulwarks against further legal/Constitutional disintegration, let alone electoral politics as vicious, open warfare. So, imagine a truculent, unrepentant outlaw, already under the gun for inciting violence, playing the inevitable, Trumpian extortion card: “prosecute me and mass violence erupts.” Ferocity is […]
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Hogwash! That the US goes full banana republic by prosecuting endless Trump crime sprees
Hogwash! That the US goes full banana republic by prosecuting endless Trump crime sprees
The siege against core values worsens by NOT prosecuting calculated, sneering subversion of laws Amidst the ever-sprawling, incendiary investigations of Trump’s criminality, reactionaries caution that any indictments of an ex-president – whether guilty as hell or not – send America into banana republic spirals of descent. As when tin-pot potentates appoint servile judges who prompt courts to shred the opposition and oppress the people? Does such fear-mongering against simply enforcing the law not award popular demagogues automatic immunity, however infamous? Indictment and conviction are the only bulwarks against further legal/Constitutional disintegration, let alone electoral politics as vicious, open warfare. So, imagine a truculent, unrepentant outlaw, already under the gun for inciting violence, playing the inevitable, Trumpian extortion card: “prosecute me and mass violence erupts.” Ferocity is […]