Thread by @matt_cam

There's a story in @peterpomeranzev's "Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible" I think about all the time re: an importer jailed by Putin's DEA for possession of legal cleaning chems bc his pals wanted the contract.

We're a little closer to living in that country every day.

Even if you didn't already know that DOJ's appalling corruption in the Flynn case was a threat to the health & future of anything resembling the pretense of what the US. citizenship exam still calls the "rule of law," you have no excuse after this letter

nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

United States Senator @RandPaul immediately wrote this letter's signatories off as "deep state" operatives, arguably as much as of a problem as Barr's ugly hackery itself. These people are actively destabilizing the United States in front of us, w/#MAGA nation cheering them on

I'm long past the point of caring about the future of the federal government, and anything as deeply corruptible as ours has proven to be doesn't deserve to be saved anyway. But you'd think *somebody* would. It's rapidly accelerating, right in front of us.

I don't know how to save this country, but I sure do know how to destroy it. Degrade the concept of independence or reliability in media, the judiciary, & the scientific method and...that's it. We're cooked.

Trump didn't start this race to the bottom, but he's got the baton now

Per Pomerantsev's telling, the victim must helplessly watch the prosecution push the farce that her cleaning supplies were a controlled substance--but totally unable to win in court. A defense lawyer's only purpose in the system is described as knowing who to pay off & how much.

Any litigator can tell you that we're much closer to that kind of thing than you want to know. The only thing standing between us and that kind of total corruption is an independent judiciary, & its destruction is @senatemajldr's most important project.

vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/m…

This, at long last, is why they will never show a mote of public decency. 2 terms are all they need to thoroughly compromise the federal judiciary, maybe for the rest of our lives. 'Til then, they have to put up with judges who absolutely know better

https://twitter.com/matt_cam/status/1260378856457994240

I'm not much for the Russia stuff, and I don't think Putin has the time or interest in pulling Trump's strings. But it's also hard to miss just how much Trump wants what Putin has.

Four more years of this and he just might.