4th January 2021, 7:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 4th January 2021, 7:59 PM by A Black Falcon.)
So, Wednesday, Trump's House and Senate cronies will do their best to destroy our democracy and hand it all over to Trump. Fortunately, shockingly the whole Republican Party is NOT lined up behind this effort; while a whole lot of House members are saying they will support it, maybe as many as 140 or more, "only" 14 Senators are supporting the effort so it's not going to work. McConnell has turned on Trump, in one of his very few " good" moves. Even DICK CHENEY of all people has now openly opposed Trumpo's attempted coup! I know he's no diehard Trumper, but he is one our worst past leaders and seeing him writing a pretty good and true op-ed about how tion of law and the military cannot and will not support a coup against it is noteworthy and I guess that I'm thankful that he did it. I think that's probably the first time I've ever said THAT about Dick Cheney. (Well, he did also wear face maks from early on in 2020, so ther is that.)
Now, many of the people supporting the revolt in Congress against certifying Biden's election win probably would say in private, off the record, that they don't actually support the Trump-fascist takeover of our government, and are only supporting it as a piece of performance art to try to stay in the good graces of Trump's delusional base with something they know would fail. But you know? Regardless of your reason, supporting the overthrow of our government and its replacement with one where only Trump can win is inexcusable and borderline treasonous. We can't throw all of them in prison for it, but people who have committed proven crimes must be investigated for them and prosecuted.
And with how Trump basically runs the nation like the mafia and acts like a mafia boss, there is both a massive amount of material on him to arrest him based on, and also a lot of things that you can interpret multiple ways based on interpretation. I'm sure there are many many things he can be prosecuted for and we need to do it. Even someone as blatantly corrupt and who has committed as many crimes as Trump has might be hard to actually put behind bars though, particularly as an ex-President, but yeah if we once again say "no, we won't prosecute the former administration" like Obama did, or yes happened with Nixon in the '70s, it would be a major major mistake.
Of course, that is the problem -- on the one hand, in order to continue having a nation of law we must prosecute these people who have violated innumeraable laws and want to get rid of democracy because votes don't always go the way they want them to. However, there is a LARGE base of Americans who believe insane conspiracy theories and will never believe that Trump did anything illegal. I would assume that the case for not prosecuting would be based on "well maybe if we just ignore him and wait for him to go away we can put this country back together and those peoele will just stop believing that stuff after Trump's gone", but yeah, that is hopelessly naive.
Instead, what is gone is the concept of America as a place where people care about fact or truth. Because the conspiracy thoerists of the right do not anymore and will be a huge problem going forward regardless of what happens to Trump after he is pushed out of office. So yeah, proscute them all for their very public and blatant crimes! The right will be half controlled by insane conspiracy theories either way, going easy on Trump won't help I do not think. At least we can try to maintain a nation of law while we still can.
So:
1) Prosecute Trump's cronies and put them behind bars for any crimes that can be prosecuted.
2) Also go after Trump if you think you would win the case in court.
Now, many of the people supporting the revolt in Congress against certifying Biden's election win probably would say in private, off the record, that they don't actually support the Trump-fascist takeover of our government, and are only supporting it as a piece of performance art to try to stay in the good graces of Trump's delusional base with something they know would fail. But you know? Regardless of your reason, supporting the overthrow of our government and its replacement with one where only Trump can win is inexcusable and borderline treasonous. We can't throw all of them in prison for it, but people who have committed proven crimes must be investigated for them and prosecuted.
And with how Trump basically runs the nation like the mafia and acts like a mafia boss, there is both a massive amount of material on him to arrest him based on, and also a lot of things that you can interpret multiple ways based on interpretation. I'm sure there are many many things he can be prosecuted for and we need to do it. Even someone as blatantly corrupt and who has committed as many crimes as Trump has might be hard to actually put behind bars though, particularly as an ex-President, but yeah if we once again say "no, we won't prosecute the former administration" like Obama did, or yes happened with Nixon in the '70s, it would be a major major mistake.
Of course, that is the problem -- on the one hand, in order to continue having a nation of law we must prosecute these people who have violated innumeraable laws and want to get rid of democracy because votes don't always go the way they want them to. However, there is a LARGE base of Americans who believe insane conspiracy theories and will never believe that Trump did anything illegal. I would assume that the case for not prosecuting would be based on "well maybe if we just ignore him and wait for him to go away we can put this country back together and those peoele will just stop believing that stuff after Trump's gone", but yeah, that is hopelessly naive.
Instead, what is gone is the concept of America as a place where people care about fact or truth. Because the conspiracy thoerists of the right do not anymore and will be a huge problem going forward regardless of what happens to Trump after he is pushed out of office. So yeah, proscute them all for their very public and blatant crimes! The right will be half controlled by insane conspiracy theories either way, going easy on Trump won't help I do not think. At least we can try to maintain a nation of law while we still can.
So:
1) Prosecute Trump's cronies and put them behind bars for any crimes that can be prosecuted.
2) Also go after Trump if you think you would win the case in court.