Mitchell Epner: We have to be the people we have been waiting for. No one else is coming to save us.

With regard to former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper’s chilling account that then-President Trump wanted troops confronting protestors in Lafayette Park to “shoot them in the legs”, I’d love to hear someone ask the follow up question whether Trump understood that people would fall & get hit in torso.

To be clear, I understand that leg wounds can easily be fatal. I just would love to hear whether Trump understood “shoot them in the legs” was an impossible-to-achieve, idiotic request when dealing massed troops confronting a mass protest from a distance.

I don’t think he gave two shits whether protestors died.

I think “shoot them in the legs” was him trying to create plausible deniability, because he thought he could’ve been prosecuted for saying “shoot them in the head”

But now Chief Justice Roberts has (to his everlasting shame) enabled fascism by taking away the prospect for criminal prosecution. I hope Roberts receives total consciousness on his deathbed and goes to his grave knowing that his entire legacy will be as a minion of evil.

There is an assumption this would make him sad.

I am confident, based on knowing many former Supreme Court clerks, that Roberts thinks a great deal about his legacy.

so did his legacy just slip his mind last week? or is trump v. us how he wants to be remembered?

I think he is a COWARD who was afraid the right would come after him if he stood up to Trump. I think he thinks his legacy will be adjudicated by the Heritage/Cato/Federalist Societies. I think he would be horrified to learn he will be remembered as the moral equivalent of Roland Freisler.

Amazon.com: Hitler's Executioner: Roland Freisler, President of the Nazi People's Court: 9781473889392: Ortner, Helmut: Bookswww.amazon.com Amazon.com: Hitler's Executioner: Roland Freisler, President of the Nazi People's Court: 9781473889392: Ortner, Helmut: Books

Who will be our white rose?

We have to be the people we have been waiting for. No one else is coming to save us.

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