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This whole "we have to beat Trump at the ballot box" shit also shows how truly toothless the Democrats are. This guy started a fucking insurrection and they're letting him run for President. They waited two years until he started selling nuclear secrets to start any criminal proceedings against him. I've said plenty of times our reluctance to punish Bush for war crimes is a direct line to Trump. They weren't willing to stand up for war crimes, and they won't stand up for this.
They literally are signaling loud and clear that if Trump wins again, even illegitimately, they will not be the defenders of democracy and they will step aside and let Trump be a dictator.
Hell, they'll probably pull a Ray Nagin and run off to Europe to cry on CNN Europe about how sad they are for all of us still stuck here under Trump's authoritarian thumb.
Waiting 2 years was political. Nothing more. They're to blame again if Trump gets in. I'm so tired of their stupid milquetoast candidates.
Unless you expect self-policing from the right, I'm not sure who else would.
Obama was the President. He appointed the Attorney General. It most explicitly was his job to prosecute Bush war crimes. Biden is President now, he appointed Merrick Garland as AG. It is explicitly his job to prosecute cases of insurrection, yet he had to be politically pressured to do it, years late. Here in my state, AG Josh Kaul has declined to prosecute the fake electors for election fraud, despite that it is explicitly his job to do so.
The oversight of the right wing is Democrats' job not because they are Democrats, but because they got elected to offices in which it is their job.
This comment is a breath of fresh air.