... is well-exemplified by this post from the normally excellent crew at PowerLine. It describes how Trump lost a unanimous decision by the D. C. District Court of Appeals which ruled that he did not have blanket immunity to steal catalytic converters or blackjack transients at the bus depot while he was President of the United States. That's all well and good. The closing paragraph was the kicker and it echoes what I hear from all my favorite hosts at the Daily Wire.
If the Supreme Court denies review, the underlying criminal case brought by Krazy-Eyez Killa Jack Smith will return to Judge Chutkan. Assuming no scheduling conflicts with the other cases pending against Trump prevent it, Judge Chutkan apparently means to get this case tried following Trump’s nomination at the Republican convention to be held next July in Milwaukee. A trial at that time would give new meaning to the term “election interference.”
Emphasis mine. We get that all the time from the conservative punditry these days. It's just grist for the poor, persecuted Donald Trump mill that is running 24/7. Yes, this is politically motivated. Yes, this is election interference. So what? Every candidate for the presidency from either party has faced that.
If Nixon could have put McGovern in jail, you don't think he would have done that? The left sincerely believed Reagan was going to get us into a thermonuclear holocaust. You don't think they were turning over every rock in the garden, looking for a way to stop him?
The difference is that Trump, the malignant narcissist that he is, has been the only candidate stupid enough to give his enemies such a wide array of weapons with which to attack him.
Take January 6, for instance. Trump is a junkie. His drug of choice is attention and praise. January 6 was nothing more than him fumbling around in his desk drawer for his venipuncture tourniquet and syringe. There was no point to that rally other than feed his desperate, narcissistic addiction. Failing on the world stage by losing the election drove him to drug-withdrawal madness. That many in the crowd went to jail for his sake meant nothing to him. The January 6 riot had no other purpose than to feed Trump's addiction.
Yes, he's being politically persecuted. Yes, the DAs and judges going after him are hacks, except for the classified documents case. The pundits are spot on about that, but they miss one, huge detail about all of these cases, a detail they should have been shouting from the rooftops so their fellow conservatives could have made a better choice in the primaries.
That detail is this: Trump is a self-destructive idiot. He can't help himself. He's sick. He is the architect of his own catastrophic failures and it will always be thus. Is that what we wanted?
 |
| It didn't have to be like this. |
I think at least part of the problem is the natural human tendency to do the opposite of what someone else tells them to do.
ReplyDelete"Don't vote for Trump!"
"Screw you, nobody tells me what to do! I'll vote for him anyway!"
It reminds me of the time I told my then-4-year-old nephew to be careful not to touch the electric fence. He paused, then started to reach for it. "It'll hurt!", I said. He looked me right in the eye, and then kept reaching for the fence . . . and touched it. POW! WAAAAA!
My brother then told me that this was pretty typical. Warning his son not to do things just made him want to do them even more, even when they were things that were going to do him harm. My nephew eventually learned to listen to warnings, but I understand it took some years.
You know, KT, it *is* possible to acknowledge that Trump is a very flawed man without going into TDS territory. or lying about Nixon.
ReplyDelete==Yes, the DAs and judges going after him are hacks, except for the classified documents case==
ReplyDeleteNope, not even there.