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Its generally bad look to let criminals go free because of status, especially if the status is political position. The first demonstrates that the law is tool of control of those with lesser status, and the latter specifically promotes escalating abuses (the US since Watergate is, actually, quite a good example of this.)
Now a red line has been crossed, the GOP is seems to be gearing up for civil war. They keep talking about the 6 Christians martyred and how no corporation or the "Biden Regime" has acknowledged them. Desantis has come out on Trump's side, even though days ago he said he wouldn't.
Escalation is occurring, and it's sheer arrogance to think this thing doesn't reek of pure politics.
I'm legitimately scared we have summoned something we cannot contain.
Now we crossed a red line? I thought Trump crossed it when he tried to overthrow the government?
I never voted for the guy but it’s clear that the “insurrection” was hardly that and more of a protest that turned into a lawless riot. Of which we’d seen politicians and media celebrate a lot of over the previous year.
Isn’t a riot the language of the unheard, after all?
We know that Trump was following this legal strategy. Why is it important whether Jan6 was an insurrection or a riot?
There's an argument to be made that the charge is weak but definitely not that it's innocuous...
For me, it's more that these crimes he's accused of really pale in comparison to other things we've seen Trump say and do, like the two things he was impeached for.