My understanding of fascism is an ethos that’s basically, “We need to use violence to subvert the existing democracy and install our guy before X takes over democratically and reforms the system against our interests.”
X can be whatever the opposition movement is.
The cases of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco inform this understanding.
Just like to point out every alarmist about Trump and his movement was 100% right.
The same alarmists are still sounding alarms and still being ignored/disregarded.
Gotta hand to the banks, interest rates going up just as millions of people will now consider buying a home thanks to the student loan debt cancellation.
Well played
Doesn’t matter what I want. Trump was under FBI investigation before he was President, while he was President, and now after a seditious conspiracy to remain in power. Playing the long game of getting this guy has always led to a predictable and often bigger catastrophe.
The Trump appointed FBI director that let the insurrection happen is still the FBI director. Was his master long game plan to let Trump do sedition and catch him in the act? Or was it gross negligence? Somehow Wray has received little public scrutiny over this. Trump is still being protected instead of prosecuted and it sucks.
Not trolling.
if I can’t speculate about the malfeasance of my government on a Texas Longhorns political talk message then what the hell is anyone doing here?
Don’t worry, I’ll post less anyway.
Look, I don’t even like my own opinion but I ain’t going to lie either. At this point Garland needs to indict Trump or resign but I suspect neither will happen.
Trump is walking freely among us and inciting his supporters to political violence.
you evidently were pinning your hopes on this prosecution being a big secret somehow, as though that was ever a possibility.
Nope, I think the plan was to retrieve the stolen documents and then maybe prosecute some low level guy for negligence.
None of the big January 6 conspirators/organizers have faced meaningful consequences.
Garland let the statute of limitations expire on all of Trump’s obstruction crimes while in office.
There is not a lack of evidence.
There isn’t a missing smoking gun.
It just a corrupt system trying to sustain itself.
What work did Garland do in these cases that was remarkable? I’m curious as this is a frequent talking point to bolster Garland’s credentials. McVeigh was caught shortly after the bombing and Unabomber was turned in by his brother. What am I not seeing?
Oh, the master strategy was to let Trump set the narrative in the public sphere?
You are free to disagree but this looks like Mueller all over again. Too little, too late. Wheels of justice turn slow (unless you’re Reality Winner). Blah blah blah.
I want you to be right but the evidence over time in front of me tells me something different.
It wasn’t a raid. The FBI agents showed up in plain clothes with a search warrant. Garland didn’t make a statement until he was forced to because Trump hit back with his call to arms.
This wasn’t a raid like we saw with Manafort or Stone and Wray is in hiding or something. Very little about this case makes Garland look good.