I'm with the Go Big and Soon crowd. To me, the 2016 election proved that anyone can be installed in the Oval Office, anyone no matter how unfit, unqualified, uninterested. What that did was demean the Oval Office to the lowest common denominator. It made it illegitimate. Just as SCOTUS was demeaned and made illegitimate by its own and …
I'm with the Go Big and Soon crowd. To me, the 2016 election proved that anyone can be installed in the Oval Office, anyone no matter how unfit, unqualified, uninterested. What that did was demean the Oval Office to the lowest common denominator. It made it illegitimate. Just as SCOTUS was demeaned and made illegitimate by its own and Mitch McConnell’s perfidies. And Congress does not stand above the other branches but with them, having worked hard to create those downfalls. The result is that if a “president” is “above the law” then EVERYONE is above the law and that is called LAWLESSNESS.
So the mild-mannered Garland has no choice but to prosecute the would-be king if the USA has any hope of ever again having even a semblance of Law and Order or Constitutional rule.
I think that in most countries, Trump and his cronies in WH, Congress and probably SCOTUS, would already have been purged from Government. Nowhere has democracy seemed more incapable of governing than here and now. No wonder people turn away from democracy as a governing principle. Tyrants depend on that. (The world has watched the USA become weaker and weaker and more and more timid and cautious and fearful in the past half century. Both our friends and our enemies have been watching. When did “doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do” go out of favor and become so political and cringe-inducing?)
I'm with the Go Big and Soon crowd. To me, the 2016 election proved that anyone can be installed in the Oval Office, anyone no matter how unfit, unqualified, uninterested. What that did was demean the Oval Office to the lowest common denominator. It made it illegitimate. Just as SCOTUS was demeaned and made illegitimate by its own and Mitch McConnell’s perfidies. And Congress does not stand above the other branches but with them, having worked hard to create those downfalls. The result is that if a “president” is “above the law” then EVERYONE is above the law and that is called LAWLESSNESS.
So the mild-mannered Garland has no choice but to prosecute the would-be king if the USA has any hope of ever again having even a semblance of Law and Order or Constitutional rule.
I think that in most countries, Trump and his cronies in WH, Congress and probably SCOTUS, would already have been purged from Government. Nowhere has democracy seemed more incapable of governing than here and now. No wonder people turn away from democracy as a governing principle. Tyrants depend on that. (The world has watched the USA become weaker and weaker and more and more timid and cautious and fearful in the past half century. Both our friends and our enemies have been watching. When did “doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do” go out of favor and become so political and cringe-inducing?)