We seem to be ignoring the chaff and barriers left behind the Trump administration.
The q folk have been asserting that 40,000 sealed enticements would be served for all those who ever turned against trump in the final days of trumps first reign. That didn't happen.
Some of these posts seem oddly reminiscent of that.
Did the real perpetrators of Iran contra see real punishment? Nope. Did Nixon see the inside of a cell? Nope. Did Bush and Cheney ever get their noses rubbed in the filth of a three trillion dollar, thousands of casualties war based on outright lies? Nope.
When institutionalists like garland and mueller come up against gross perversions of the institutions they swear by they falter and ultimately fail.
Hell, it took three years for the institution of the fourth estate to even use the word lie.
It is all just too foreign for these well meaning but ultimately inept "champions" of democracy to comprehend let alone for them to act assertively.
My prediction is that the rioters slash insurectiinists most led on or most critically insane will be the only people actually held to account.
As a student of history, I was always most interested in the culture and behavior of the people in the last days of the Roman empire, more so, the flavor of the rational people at the conclusion of the Weimar Republic.
I never thought I might experience it first hand. In America, I believed, the cavalry always rides in at the last possible moment.
I seem to have been disillusioned.
