01-24-2022, 09:31 AM
(01-23-2022, 10:48 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-23-2022, 02:12 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Republicans can still get hammered on the Capitol Putsch and their toadying for Donald Trump. Prosecutions seem more directed now at people outside, basically the ones encouraging the incursion.
No one other than people like you care about the Capital Putsch or care about your views of Trump. You are in the same boat as Eric. Like I said the other day, you're fate is sealed. So, what blue (bad place) would you prefer to die in? You have a choice now but you won't have it for much longer.
People are still being hauled in for criminal trials. The Feds have been slow to go after the most culpable figures. Prosecutors and investigators are apparently doing everything possible to get the solidest possible cases. Good police and prosecutors don't grandstand; they let the case be decided in a court of law. Guilty people may even think that they are getting away while they do things to incriminate themselves, like trying to destroy evidence or have meetings with fellow participants to coordinate testimony. Liberal media keep pressing news on the prosecution of the plotters.
We are in an ugly, distressing time. Trump did much to make it so. He was not alone, but I can think of other Republicans who would have been more successful and far less troublesome. A Republican President who was halfway-decent and competent would have had a solid re-election. Being at the sixth year of a Romney Presidency would be far better than being at the start of the second year of the Biden Presidency that is possible only because of the bungling and personal vileness of Donald Trump. I hope that we are closer to the new day of democratic renewal of a political experiment than to its end. The shadows are longest both just after sunrise and just before sunset.
Donald Trump still has a personality cult. Personality cults can long outlast the object of adulation, as is so with Benito Mussolini, Josef Stalin, and Mao Zedong. We still have Mafia groupies who still admire the rapacious, corrupt, murderous capi di tutti capi. Osama bin Laden and abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will likely have admirers for the next few decades.
I'm going with the legal process that can take down someone like John Gotti. Nobody needs any tortures to extract abject confessions.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.