Assigned Reading… and More
Published at 20:42 on 25 July 2023
First, the assigned reading:
- The FBI and the Justice Department dragged their feet for well over a year when it came to finally repudiating the American version of Führerprinzip.
- The FBI resisted raiding Mar-A-Lago for stolen classified documents.
- All this foot-dragging has significantly increased the risk of another coup attempt in 2024 or early 2025.
The extra content is a little discussion.
First, will this foot dragging result in any action being too little, too late? It might. Had the lawbreaking by the most powerful been treated more seriously sooner, Trump might already be seriously damaged to the point that the GOP would finally throw him under a bus. (His base of cult followers would never do so, but the party leadership might, if they realize that the sooner they do so, the sooner they can move on from a candidate who is doomed to lose. They don’t care about democracy, but they do care about remaining politically viable.)
Second, it really all goes to show what a bunch of pure unadulterated bullshit the “they are picking on Trump” line of the Right continues to be. Trump has gotten nothing but free rides and special treatment from the entire system, basically since the very first day of his life as the heir of a multimillionaire. If Trump wasn’t getting special treatment, he would already be in prison.