Let's Do More Than 'Start Talking' About It, Lets Earnestly Plan For It

Are we a nation of laws borne of our constitution or not?  It's a simple yes or no question.

Donald Trump believes we are not such a nation.

If indeed we are a nation of laws, then you're goddamn right that now is a good time to begin talking about legal accountability for this constitution and law shredding dictator wannabe and his henchmen.

Link: Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers | The New Republic

"Trump 2.0 has been a remarkable speedrun into lawlessness, a testament to the fact that there might have actually been some adults in the room during his first term. (During which time he still fomented an insurrection and got impeached twice!) Now, freed from those guardrails that were once upstanding, he’s rocketed into a new level of infamy. I once held that George W. Bush’s reign was much more costly than Trump’s. No longer; his return has truly been a thing apart. As TNR’s Alex Shephard documented this week, Trump’s trip to the Gulf States has been a vertically integrated grift, in which the president has racked up more corrupt enterprises than most politicians manage in their whole careers.

This week’s skullduggery is, of course, just one brief crime spree among many. Over at The Nation, Jeb Lund lays down the lengthy rap sheet that Trump has written for himself in his first 100 days. The Trump administration has heisted the private data of millions of Americans, unlawfully terminated thousands of federal employees, extorted law firms and businesses and broadcasters; they’re gaming the markets, raking in corrupt money with crypto-tokens, kidnapping people and exiling them to foreign prisons without due process, and much much more. As Lund notes: “The question is not whether Trump and his people committed a crime while you read that last sentence but how many.”"

Drumpf's corruption-palooza, vengeance tour is going to end badly for a lot of people, first and foremost for Drumpf and his cabal of usurpers, and I am most definitely including Elmo in that category.  It is also going to end badly for millions of Americans who never in their lifetimes imagined a nefariously-plotted coup of the type these guys have engineered coming to fruition and bringing the country to the brink of totalitarianism and likely civil conflict in resistance.

---TFG