Two words: Banana republic.
Twenty-two words: Was it a banana republic when Michael Cohen was convicted and did time for three of the same crimes that Trump committed?
Would Trump have been convicted if he decided not to run for POTUS again?
Hint: No, he would not have.
YES! He would be under investigation for his horrific handling of classified documents too.
In the US, we actually go after people who commit crimes when they commit crimes, generally.
I understand how this would be confusing to someone who lives where the only reason for government intervention is political oppression, but the US works differently than that.
At least for now. There's no telling what the future holds if Trump and his Congressional cultists win in November, especially considering the corrupt partisanship of SCOTUS.
I disagree that there's no telling what's going to happen.
I think it's fair to speculate that if Trump is allowed into office that within the next 2-3 years we'll be the Christian version of Iran. They'll keep Trump in power until he dies. In the meantime the fundies already have their laws and policies ready to roll out. There will be no on to oppose Trump because he'll be Stupid Putin. All political opposition of any note will be killed, imprisoned, or simply fired and replaced with people who swear fealty to Trump/GOP.
We don't have to reach for an example of this. Saddam Hussein required all who held a government job to be Baath party members. The same thing would happen here.
Maybe. Oddly enough, almost every commenter on the NYTImes site this morning thought that Paul Krugman was going overboard when he mentioned, Trump would ruin our democracy, and if he wins, that might be our last election. I'll try and find the article and gift it here. I don't think we will end up like Iran, but the end of the SCS will be under a much greater threat than it already is. It's been abused since day one, but I really don't expect to be forced to attend a conservative Christians church, wear what the most conservative Christian women wear, and things like that. They will just keep trying to push religion into the public schools, and things like that, but considering that some states are pretty blue, it's even hard to imagine that will be a nationwide thing. Floriduh yes. Georgia, maybe. California, I seriously doubt it. Let's just hope that people get off their butts and "vote blue no matter who".
The NYT board wants Trump to win.
I keep saying this and I guess I'll say it again, the NYT is aligned to consistently deliver the most conservative spin they can get away with to a liberal audience to push the Overton window right.
You can only shift the average by attacking the lower end so much. It's only half as effective as pushing both ends at the same time.
That is the role of the NYT in media.
The editorial direction as a manifestation of the will of the board will always be spinning rightward, calling Republicans "Congress" when republicans do something shitty, calling Democrats "Congress" when Democrats do something right, and calling them by name whenever the good/bad is inverted on each.
They will continue to push stories that call Trump's judges "porn judge" or whatever rather than just discussing it without spin (serious WTF?!?), and printing story after story to put Trump's name in the public awareness.
I have consistently seen this bias across any article from the NYT that comes across my feed, and I am entirely unsurprised.
*They will often have some writers get past the editors to hold up a more leftist stance, however this doesn't change the overall trend of leaning right while standing left.
