I mean they’re quite obviously both very corrupt and very cynical and bad faith in their manipulation of criminal law. That was obvious way before this story came out, and it’s obvious if you ignore anything to do with Trump. Just say war makes strange bedfellows or whatever the saying is, rather than being like “nah they’re not that bad”
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I think when the history is written, Trump may not even emerge as the worst villain. Rather, the true vile actors of this awful period in American history will be the Republican senate/politicians who time and time again shamelessly showed they had no spine or integrity
Think of how quickly the Trump phenomenon (and his MAGA base) could’ve been neutered and nullified meaningless if they had taken any one of myriad chances to act with an ounce of integrity early on
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Yeah, Nixon got taken down because there were three networks and the local newspaper, all who reported the same exact facts, and people had no choice but to believe it because the truth actually existed at one point.
If Nixon had had multiple millions of keyboard warrior fuckwits and the power of the Russian propaganda machine reminding everyone that Nixon was just gathering evidence against his pedophile demonrat enemies, then he would have come away completely unscathed.
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This.
Hahahhahahahaha. Oh wow.
The second impeachment was literally about protecting him from an election he lost and said was stolen from him.
Trump’s #1 message this cycle is avenging an election he lost and says was stolen from him, and all his cronies are on board.
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You’re both kind of right in that the system “worked” in the sense that democracy ultimately prevailed and Trump seems to have paid a political price for his bullshit in future elections, but downplaying the continued threat of slide into a fascist dictatorship because “it didn’t happen before” seems pretty short sighted.
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Trump openly committed crimes from day 1 and literally stole top secret nuclear secrets and years later he’s still the odds on favorite to win the next election outright or steal it in a coup. Absolutely none of the checks and balances that were supposed to stop this kind of thing worked. All we can do is hope for some big Biden surge and also hope they don’t all bring guns to the insurrection next time.
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Best we can do is the senate majority leader “choosing not to comment on the republican primary race” of his own party
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Raids:
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“Take it over leave it. Now or never,” the judge added.
The guy who coulda negotiated the Civil War but couldn’t make a deal here.
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Good, I want to hear more audio from Trump’s lawyer who sounds like a strangled chicken
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I listened to the whole thing. Even through the legalese, I could tell the guy was full of shit.
Still waiting for Trump to retain power after he loses an election.
His own fucking veep wouldn’t “collaborate” for him and his real collaborators haven’t even hung the fucker yet for his betrayal.
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Meanwhile, the Trump frightened left is still figuratively double masking and avoiding crowds in indoor spaces like the grocery store while simultaneously bemoaning the strength of institutions meant to check power they also actively seek to undermine.
Completely unserious people.
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Who said that?
The facts that
(1) it has never happened before here
(2) despite much less strong institutions
(3) and the most recent attempt abjectly failed
all seem relevant when taking the temperature of a future threat.
So let’s give him a second chance!
Brilliant!
I don’t think “we” really have much of a choice.
Gotta beat him at the ballot box in all likelihood. Even if he is in prison he will be the nominee.
I am looking forward to all the leftists canvassing for Joe to keep Trump out of power. The intellectual honesty is staggering.
Certainly can’t recall any instances of a loser failing an insurrection then finding a way to end up with total dictatorial control of a country after using that failure as a learning experience to improve on their second attempt, no siree.
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Must have been somewhere without strong institutions like the courts here!