No, there is another way, and it’s the way Trump is trying hard to see come about.
It’s all about the midterms. If Trump pulls off a huge upset victory and the Republicans hold or expand their majorities, the problem solves itself. His political power increases exponentially. He can then fire whomever he wishes, release whatever he wishes, but he’s not likely going to have to...the resignations will be on his desk that Wednesday morning. One election can be a fluke, but if he wins the midterms too...that’s a movement that cannot be ignored or wished away by the powers-that-be in D.C.
Political prosecutions generally rebound on the prosecutor in America. And American politics is always forward looking as opposed to concentrating on the sins of the past, regardless of how corrupt and egregious those sins are. That’s because these are D.C. issues that impact the power brokers, not the people in their daily lives. The winners of elections are those who concentrate effectively on the needs of the voters.
Trump is going to concentrate on the big prize, which would be increasing his political power in the midterms...which would be an unheard-of victory and if he pulled it off, it’d be transformative - he’d actually have his own party behind him fully for the first time. The Democrats are not being helped by the Mueller effort, And Trump would not be helped by a political prosecution of his enemies either. Those things energize and unite the opposition behind a single “banner.” The Democrats don’t appear united right now, and they don’t appear particularly energized, relative to Trump support, either.
Elections in America need to be forward looking - there’s no percentage politically in pursuing “justice” against powerful figures who are now relegated to history, out of jobs, out of office, out of power. Meet the needs of voters, the sins of the past are the result of the voters and the opposition not doing their jobs well in th past.
When you vote corrupt people into power, and when their opposition is corrupt and milktoast themselves (McCain, Romney, Ryan, Bush et.al.), then you pay the price...there’s no practical, effective recourse...so DON’T vote them in in the first place. That is the real lesson here. In the American system, you have to be careful who you give power to, there is no escaping that. If you choose badly, you might very well lose the American system. So if you are on the side of good...if you are white hats, WIN the damned elections until you eliminate the corrupt.
Politically? The decent citizens of America want equal justice, not the same old same old bs.
Until you read that Hillary is positioning to run AGAIN in 2020 and that the Dems are so afraid of the Clintons that no one will stand in her way. Then we would really regret not looking at the sins of the past, which will become the sins of the future.
You don't think the "sins" and crimes of the corrupt politicians and their hires do not affect people in their daily lives? And deaths???? Millions of us NEED JUSTICE SERVED!
Elections in America need to be forward looking - there’s no percentage politically in pursuing “justice” against powerful figures who are now relegated to history, out of jobs, out of office, out of power. Meet the needs of voters, the sins of the past are the result of the voters and the opposition not doing their jobs well in th past.
One thing voters need is to see that our country is a just country, and that the rule of law applies to everyone, that the elites and powerful must obey the laws just as we the peasants do. If there was no "political percentage" in legally going after criminals that happen to be DC swamp dwellers, why do millions of people chant "LOCK HER UP"? Why do millions of us want JUSTICE for these criminals?
Someone has said it much better than I can:
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Grant you that is an EXCELLENT POINT! - the elections are definitely key.
But ..I don’t think it’s either/or
It is the ground swell for both pressuring Congress AND voting correctly that matters!
AGAIN - in either case:
IT IS UP TO US TO MAKE IT RAIN!
If there is an ongoing world wide criminal network of human exploitation I don’t care who had what position when I demand justice!