At Last
Published at 23:05 on 1 August 2023
It seems as if American democracy might finally be getting serious about trying to save itself.
The basic nature of the indictment is plain: that Trump incited the insurrection on January 6th.
I am not personally averse to insurrections, if they are against a corrupt Establishment that deserves an insurrection. If Democratic operatives had really tried to steal a legitimate victory from a Republican candidate (or, of course, the converse), then the sort of thing we saw on the 6th would be both:
- Only to be expected, and
- Completely justified.
As such, the false claims on Trump’s part that he was cheated out of his victory had only one logical conclusion: the one we saw play out on the 6th.
Really, nothing could be more clear.
The question now is whether all the dilly-dallying on the way to getting here makes this a case of closing the barn door after all the cows have already escaped. But as the old saying goes, better late than never.