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[malthaussen]

7. It is, however, a failure of leadership of any kind not to recognize when special conditions apply.

It may be a failure of imagination, it may be a failure of nerve, it may be a failure for any number of reasons. But if the Democratic Party seriously thought DJT and his cabal were a serious threat to democracy, it was incumbent upon them to do something to defend the US Constitution in line with their oath. Instead, they allowed things to proceed as though they were just the normal grinding of the mills of justice. There can, again, be many reasons for this, and all sorts of arguments one might offer to demonstrate that things had to be that way. But if they really thought it was an emergency, they fucking well didn't act like it, and so here we are.

I cannot regard it as anything less than a complete failure of the US Government that, presented with a clear traitor who violated so many laws it is impossible to count, they were unable to bring him to justice and deal with his threat. If that is a necessary consequence of the way we do business in the United States of America, then maybe the nihilists are right and the country has no right to exist. In realpolitik, after all, only the country that can defend itself is considered justified in existing. If DJT and the people behind him were such a threat, we have manifestly failed to defend ourselves from him. Blame the voters? Why does the government get a free pass?

-- Mal