It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Thank you all very much for your support this year. I’m so grateful to my loyal readers. It makes all these days spent reading about frightening political developments worthwhile!
And some days are goo. Yesterday, the January 6th Committee held its final meeting and issued an Executive Report outlining the findings it will release in the 1000 page full report that’s coming on Wednesday. Oh, and they also referred former president Donald Trump to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. Another first for Trump. He truly is special.
The next year is going to be spent watching the Special Counsel, waiting for any signs that they are planning to indict Donald Trump. Since he’s running, I’m sure they are aware of the need to make a move sooner rather than later.
I am personally very, very wary about making any predictions about this. The Mar-a-Lago case seems like a slam dunk and the January 6th case is obvious to me. But that does not mean the DOJ will decide to indict on any of it. Trump is actually fairly wily when it comes to legal matters and has slithered out from accountability for years by being just vague enough that they can’t quite nail him. And he is a master at delay,
And let’s not forget just how risky all this is. Trump still has millions of followers, many of them brainwashed and violent. He will not hesitate to set them loose and after January 6th, I think we know what that means. It will only take a handful of them to do something horrifying. You have to know that this factors into any decision the DOJ will make.
I think the risk is worth it but I’m not so sure the government will agree. And that’s because I think they may be counting on the election to take care of him, meaning that he will be defeated at the ballot box in 2024 and that will be that. In fact, I’m fairly sure that’s what the political establishment has counted on from the moment he won in 2016.
How’d that work out for us? Yes, he lost in 2020, but it was close in the electoral college and half the country believes the election was stolen, the GOP has become a batshit insane authoritarian cult and he’s still out there looming over our politics for at least another two years.
We are still living in Trump’s world whether we like it or not. He may be politically wounded but he’s not dead yet. Don’t look away.
We’ll still be here following every twist and turn. As tempting as it is to drop out and stop paying attention, it’s just not responsible as long as this man is in the game. And even if he goes down the spawns of his toxic MAGA movement aren’t going anywhere. They’re just a slicker version.
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Happy Hollandaise everyone!