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In reply to the discussion: I just heard something interesting from a Rethug Insider here in Philly [View all]plimsoll
(1,670 posts)We have to know what happened or we can't prevent it from happening again. It has to be openly admitted by the perpetrators in open hearings so the followers have to confront the wrong doing of their leaders. This is like the Nuremburg trials after WW!!. The point was less targeting specific Nazi's than exposing the wrong doing of the party. Even this failed to completely destroy Nazi Ideology, but it curtailed it in West Germany pretty well.
We want the wrongdoing punished for the reasons you outlined. But the biggest perpetrators will all be pardoned. YOu'll have to pursue the small and offer them immunity to expose the extent of the wrong doing. I think trump will be handing out pardons like you've never seen, then resigns and Pence pardons him. Not much we can do, so you expose what you can, and humiliate the middling folks who got ratted out, maybe they decide it's not worth it.
In any case, Trump will never see the inside of a prison, and given our system of government he won't even have to go to some place like Rio to escape the long arm of the law. We either accept the completely vulgar machinations, or we destroy the system ourselves.
Then the congress works to plug those holes if they can.