In Which Democracy Dies
Sep. 24th, 2018 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aDonald J. Trump is a criminal. He fooled people. He got into office. Now he's using the United States government to enrich himself and his friends. That's what criminals do. It's a horrible blot on our country that we put such a blatantly criminal and openly racist man into office, but we have a system of checks and balances to correct any such mistake.
Except we don't.
That's because the Republican Party is the real problem. For twenty years they've been walking a corrosive path, where they put party ahead of country, where they put winning at all costs ahead of the health of this nation.
Their desire to push forward on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh despite credible claims of sexual abuse is deplorable. Especially as they tried to speed up the nomination last week after learning that more credible claims were on their way. Especially as they refused any type of meaningful investigation, and instead have done their best to turn it into a non-evidentiary he-says-she-says. That's not about putting a good justice on the Supreme Court. That's about "winning" at any costs, even if it means giving a misogynist and potential rapist control over every woman in this country.
Their refusal to support the investigation into a foreign government's apparently successful attempt to corrupt our election is even worse. And we aren't taking any foreign government, but the Russian's. Not only have they refused to aid the investigation in any meaningful way, but they also have refused to protect the special counsel from the very president that is inevitably part of it.
Why are you so afraid of investigation, GOP? Why are you so afraid of the truth?
And that brings us to today. September 24, 2018. That's the day we hit the CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. The man in charge of the man in charge of the Russian investigation has been forced out of office — due to apparently unprofessional but understandable statements about protecting himself and the country from the criminal Trump, using tape recording and the 25th Amendment.
It's the Saturday Night Massacre all over again.
The man poised to step up into his place has been Trump's legal sycophant for almost two years. He argued against the appointment of the special counsel and for Trump's right to fire whoever well he pleases. And this is the last bulwark of our country's fragile democracy?
This, and a Republican legislature that's proven time and time again that they'll support their president over all?
EDIT: The rumors of Rod Rosenstein's demise were greatly exaggerated. But that doesn't change the fundamental problems with the Republican party. They need to grow some patriotism, to check criminal presidents and keep criminal judges out of the judiciary. They need to protect Rosenstein and Mueller and the investigation into the corruption of our country's most sacred privilege before it's too late. It's their job as Americans and they're failing. If they want to be worthy adversaries with a different view on governmental oversight, that's great, but them being self-centered plutocrats whose only goals are to pad their pockets and to stay in power by any means possible is unamerican, unchristian, and unacceptable.
Except we don't.
That's because the Republican Party is the real problem. For twenty years they've been walking a corrosive path, where they put party ahead of country, where they put winning at all costs ahead of the health of this nation.
Their desire to push forward on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh despite credible claims of sexual abuse is deplorable. Especially as they tried to speed up the nomination last week after learning that more credible claims were on their way. Especially as they refused any type of meaningful investigation, and instead have done their best to turn it into a non-evidentiary he-says-she-says. That's not about putting a good justice on the Supreme Court. That's about "winning" at any costs, even if it means giving a misogynist and potential rapist control over every woman in this country.
Their refusal to support the investigation into a foreign government's apparently successful attempt to corrupt our election is even worse. And we aren't taking any foreign government, but the Russian's. Not only have they refused to aid the investigation in any meaningful way, but they also have refused to protect the special counsel from the very president that is inevitably part of it.
Why are you so afraid of investigation, GOP? Why are you so afraid of the truth?
And that brings us to today. September 24, 2018. That's the day we hit the CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. The man in charge of the man in charge of the Russian investigation has been forced out of office — due to apparently unprofessional but understandable statements about protecting himself and the country from the criminal Trump, using tape recording and the 25th Amendment.
It's the Saturday Night Massacre all over again.
The man poised to step up into his place has been Trump's legal sycophant for almost two years. He argued against the appointment of the special counsel and for Trump's right to fire whoever well he pleases. And this is the last bulwark of our country's fragile democracy?
This, and a Republican legislature that's proven time and time again that they'll support their president over all?
EDIT: The rumors of Rod Rosenstein's demise were greatly exaggerated. But that doesn't change the fundamental problems with the Republican party. They need to grow some patriotism, to check criminal presidents and keep criminal judges out of the judiciary. They need to protect Rosenstein and Mueller and the investigation into the corruption of our country's most sacred privilege before it's too late. It's their job as Americans and they're failing. If they want to be worthy adversaries with a different view on governmental oversight, that's great, but them being self-centered plutocrats whose only goals are to pad their pockets and to stay in power by any means possible is unamerican, unchristian, and unacceptable.