A Generational Rx

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I Never Understood Propaganda, Until Now

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The Myth of the Left Wing Press

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What If Trump...?

Let’s pretend that in the next few weeks, Trump does something completely unethical, immoral, and illegal. Let’s say he gives Russia some classified military information in exchange for Putin helping him build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

First of all, can we all agree that that is wrong on just about every level? If you don’t agree with that, then go read something else, because you’re not going to like this. (And also, don’t call yourself a patriot.)

My question is: If he does this, how will he be held accountable? Here are the normal possibilities.

1) The Department of Justice investigates him. Doubtful. The DOJ is supposed to be independent of the president, and as far as I know, always has been. But that is not the case here. Attorney General William Barr has gone on the record over and over defending the president, as if the president is his client. Barr is also implicated in the Ukraine situation. I think we can be pretty sure that Barr would let it go.

2) Local Judicial Districts, such as SDNY, or the FBI, could investigate. Nope, Barr just issued an order, that from now until the election, nobody can initiate an investigation of any political candidate without his approval. That’s not normal.

(Besides, the DOJ ruling is that a sitting president cannot be indicted, or even investigated, for crimes.)

3) The Senate could investigate. Well, that’s not going to happen. They’ve made it clear they will not cross Trump, no matter what. That’s a given.

4) Maybe the House. And they might. But no Trump supporter is going to believe them, because they would yell things like “All you do is investigate, just because you hate Trump.”

5) That leaves the press/news media. And that could happen. But Trump has that covered as well. Most Trump supporters believe that anyone except Fox is fake news. So no matter how much evidence is uncovered on Trump, Fox will not cover it. So his supporters will not believe it, if they even know about it. They will portray it as “enough already” and even independents might say “let’s move on.”

So if Trump does something horrible? As far as I can see, there is no possible vehicle to make Trump supporters believe it. The Justice Department, Congress, or the media either won’t cover it, or won’t be believed by them.

So the best that could happen is that the non-Trump supporters will go all in. Nobody else will. But since Republicans control most of the power structure, he won’t be prosecuted. He won’t be impeached. There will be no real consequences.

Realistically, Trump can do whatever he wants. Without any real worries. Sadly, this isn’t just a hypothetical. Something like this could happen.

And probably will.