Have you ever noticed that the great leaders of the world, the ones who have brought about the most enduring and positive changes, did not go out of their way to stoke anger and rage?
I am personally not seeing anyone preaching that Trump should be forgiven.
Maybe I'm missing it, but almost every source I read understands that investigation will (and must) continue.
Maybe we just read different sources.
The Biden administration includes the FBI and DOJ.
Many of the investigations must happen in the Biden administration because that's where the records are.
But Biden himself must be disengaged, or we have the same corruption we had under Trump.
The GOP investigated the Clintons for decades, so they really can't talk.
There is a way to do an investigation so that it is democracy saving and not democracy destroying.
By the way, once we are through the craziness of the next few months (I'm expecting pardons and more chaos) I will track all the investigations into the Trumps and do legal explainers.
Trump going after the Georgia voting machines is likely to suppress the Republican vote in Georgia for the runoffs, which could hand the election (and the Senate) to the Democrats.
Trump supporters in Georgia, who believe that Trump was robbed of the election partly because of the way Raffensperger conducted the election, and partly because of conspiracy theories about the machines, are angry and unlikely to vote.
Raffensperger has already blamed Trump for suppressing his own voters. Trump kept saying mail-in ballots were not secure. Republicans who voted mail-in in the primary didn't vote at all in November.
So if, for example, a majority of voters choose a form of government not based on rule of law, rule of law will die.
How do you persuade such voters not to vote for lawbreakers?
Maybe we can't. Maybe we outnumber them.
Anti-democratic voters have always been with us. . .
The Trumps and McConnells and Loeffler supporters have always been with us. They supported slavery, which was obviously not "rule of law" in the sense we mean. They supported Jim Crow, which was obviously not democratic.
Maybe once Trump is out of office people who want to stir outrage and anger will need to direct that outrage against the Democratic president for saying . . . "unity" and "let's stop demonizing each other."
Attacking someone for preaching unity makes us . . .what?
My deepest fright over the past 4 years was when I realized the extent to which Trump was influencing what the DOJ did.
Now people want Biden to do what Trump did: Put his fingers on the scales by announcing what he wants. . .
💠The truth to come out
💠Investigations to continue unhampered
💠Independent prosecutors to decide what to prosecute.
💠All money obtained illegally to be returned.
💠Congress to pass a relief bill that gives relief to ordinary people.
💠The new administration to undo the damage to our institutions done by the previous administration, which will take a lot of work and focus on building back agencies so they can do their jobs.
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I also want people to understand the extent to which your emotions and rage have been manipulated by people who profit from keeping you riled.
When I went to law school, I vowed to use my legal degree for "justice" . . .
Here's the filing in which (among other things) they ask the court to stay the certification in PA pending appeal. drive.google.com/file/d/1_492c-…
I attached the rules of appellate procedure explaining that the request must first be made at the trial court (which they didn't do.)
The other part of this is that the certification is at 7 tonight. The rules require that all parties be given reasonable notice.
Yeah, and the TRO couldn't be filed in the district court because the district court THREW OUT THE ENTIRE LAWSUIT on a motion to dismiss, which is what is being appealed.
They're asking for a chance to refile in the lower court.
You see, the question for the GOP is who controls the voters. A few decades ago, the GOP made the mistake of outsourcing voter mobilization. They teamed up with FOX and the NRA, who got the voters to the polls. So FOX and the NRA control the voters, which gives them power. . .
. . . over the voters. (That insight on GOP voter mobilization is from Yale political scientist @Jacob_S_Hacker and Berkeley political scientist Paul Pierson.
This gives FOX power over candidates, which as forced candidates to adopt more extreme positions.