The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.
All this nonsense post-2016 about how Trump's victory illustrated the dangers of the democracy when most people voted against him. Twice now. Meanwhile the holy institutions we're all supposed to be praying to and prostrating ourselves before have saved or elevated him at every opportunity.
It's absolutely wild that the dumbest and most venal of elites has all the rest of the elites breaking society to keep him from facing even a single consequence for a lifetime of open criminality. The class loyalty and kompromat involved here are epic.
To a degree, yes. But I think this rally around the Trump phenomenon is unique. The guy committed a violent attempted coup and stole nuclear secrets and is walking around free. Not to mention has decades long documented history of spending time with pedophiles. He's untouchable
I think that someday, when all the books are written, it will be profoundly disturbing to recognize both the scale and the depth of the acts that were documented in the collective Kompromat that Trump... and Putin collected and then used on American Politicians.
Institutions are fundamentally about protecting and serving people! Shared this by Frederick Douglass a bit ago. Society is superior to its forms, the spirit above the letter, the people more than the country and superior to the Constitution. When institutions protect fascists, we go around them.
This is from "Sources of Danger to the Republic," a speech given Feb 7, 1867 and published in the St. Louis Missouri Democrat. I got it from Nicholas Buccola's The Essential Douglass.
And there's no chance that he'll get the most votes this time around either. The screwed up EC institution is the only thing that makes him a viable candidate.
