The Founders anticipated all of this, and that is why they buried throughout the constitution various secret hints and rules that would, centuries later, make it illegal to notice or get mad when a powerful and extremely dumb guy repeatedly commits obvious oafish political crimes.
This one is still the funniest to me: after all our post-WW2 military buildup and the mystique surrounding it, we got Donald Trump stealing their secrets, not for some nefarious Bond villain purpose, but just because he's a kleptomaniac who wants to show off at his country club.
I don't like it, obviously, but I agree that there's something kind of clarifying about it being this guy and this shit that they're willing to throw it all over for.
We got lucky as hell during Trump 1, because he's probably the worst possible person to be in charge of any kind of military: he loves the violence and the pageantry, but he thinks ideals like service, sacrifice and discipline are for losers.
I don’t think it’s so much this PARTICULAR guy as much as it is a guy who just says and does all the mean, nasty shit they wanted to say & do for decades. RWers bitched forever that Romney, McCain, GWB were soft, country club Rs. Trump’s blatant assholery has to be hugely cathartic to big assholes.
I love originalism as a legal ideology because it's the most made up shit of all time. "I think the founding fathers would've wanted me to, uh, have a Lexus. And a Yacht."
Of course, if Cannon thought special prosecutors were illegal all along, she could have dismissed the indictment immediately. But how to pad out the billing statement she'd send to Leonard Leo?
“‘The Whole of this Constitution, and all present and future Laws of the United States, shall apply to all Citizens, with the sole and irrevocable Exception of Donald J. Trump.’ And it’s signed in the same invisible ink by…Donald J. Trump.”
Right wing judiciaries decoding and baking the Constitution like it’s their own personal Q drop. Well, that or they are just making shit up as they go.
