I'm guessing tRump won't miss his tee time in New Jersey this morning. After being released on his own recognizance in a Florida courtroom, the now twice indicted, twice impeached, disgraced former president spent some time in little Havana, basking in his fans' adulation. Then it was back to his golf club where he can count on a steady supply of sycophantic followers to prop up his notoriously fragile ego.
As Heather Cox Richardson pointed out in a recent post, failing to hold previous highly placed wrongdoers to account has led us to this sorry state of affairs. I didn't know that Jefferson Davis was never prosecuted for leading an attempt to destroy the country, but thanks to Andrew Johnson, he and many other leaders of the Confederacy were pardoned, leading to the myth of the "lost cause''.
Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon was another failure to hold highly placed elected officials accountable for their crimes. As Richardson points out, had Nixon been tried and convicted it might have changed the actions of future presidents such as Reagan and Clinton.
Instead, we find ourselves trying to save our democracy from a 77 year old lying, thieving, traitorous blowhard who has beguiled a significant portion of the electorate into believing him innocent without even looking at the evidence. Ah, America in 2023...
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