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Removing Trump Is Not Enough. He Must Be Prosecuted.
The Nation ^ | 1 Dec, 2020 | SASHA ABRAMSKY

Posted on 12/02/2020 4:47:20 AM PST by MtnClimber

Inauguration Day is only seven weeks away. In “normal” times, the outgoing president and his team would at this point be facilitating a smooth transfer of power—tying up a few policy loose ends, but generally making way for the new president and acknowledging the new political priorities of that president.

None of that is happening with Donald Trump. In fact, quite the reverse........

Given how the post-election period has developed, it’s not enough to remove this man from power. His authoritarian presence on the political stage, the cancer that he represents on the American body politic, must be obliterated, leaving absolutely no possibility of a second act. For he has in this past month declared total war on American democracy. And in this struggle, there can be no middle ground.

There is a lot of talk of “healing” and “moving on,” of ignoring Trump’s myriad crimes in order to somehow nurture the greater good. But healing involves, at the very least, acknowledgment of culpability on the part of the guilty—that was, after all, the foundational principle of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Trump is not only not admitting any culpability, but his rampage against the legal, political, and cultural pillars of American democracy is actually intensifying as his term in office draws to a close.

Without even a nod to truth, there certainly can be no reconciliation. Trump’s disgraceful, dangerous behavior, from his self-dealing while in government to his last-ditch efforts to subvert the popular will, is cratering trust in American democracy. For this, he must be made to face a legal reckoning.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; idesofmarch; insurrection
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To: MtnClimber

As you Libs are fond of asking, “where’s the evidence?”.


21 posted on 12/02/2020 4:53:57 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: MtnClimber

Wouldn’t you like to meet Sasha on a dark alley.


22 posted on 12/02/2020 4:54:10 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: Thebaddog
No,not crazy...amoral.There's a difference.Schizophrenics are crazy...anarchists are depraved.
23 posted on 12/02/2020 4:54:51 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (BLM Stands For "Bidens Loot Millions"!)
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To: Jeepers43
Lol. See the empathy?

MAY 12, 2018,

Sasha Abramsky on the Decline of Empathy and the Future of Democracy

24 posted on 12/02/2020 4:54:58 AM PST by Jeepers43
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To: MtnClimber

Sorry commies, by this time in 2016 you had us all labeled as racists, homophobes, sexists, nazis, thieves, etc.. You all set a new low standard yet again, now I’m at the point of wondering why they deserve a shred of civility.


25 posted on 12/02/2020 4:56:12 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

26 posted on 12/02/2020 4:56:53 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Russ

He wouldn’t made it past 6th grade in my elementary school


27 posted on 12/02/2020 4:57:51 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: MtnClimber

What crimes?


28 posted on 12/02/2020 4:57:55 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: MtnClimber

” Trump’s disgraceful, dangerous behavior, from his self-dealing while in government to his last-ditch efforts to subvert the popular will, is cratering trust in American democracy. For this, he must be made to face a legal reckoning.”

What did he do exactly Sasha?, you group thinking deep state wannabe POS.


29 posted on 12/02/2020 4:58:04 AM PST by Eddie01 (too exhausted to apply the sarc tag)
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To: MtnClimber

The left is unhinged. We are next . . .


30 posted on 12/02/2020 4:58:31 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Malsua
I asked a ranting leftie "what's so horrible about Trump? what did he do?"

"COVID!!!!"

OK, so maybe not the best response, but he had 25 people advising him including physicians and epidemiologists. What's number two?

.......... Crickets.

31 posted on 12/02/2020 4:58:33 AM PST by Jeepers43
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To: JonPreston

No, he shouldn’t.
Who is this author? Ever heard of him before?
He’s just some poontang running his turtlenecked mouth.
He has no power whatsoever.


32 posted on 12/02/2020 4:59:43 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Punch a communist.

They deserve it.


33 posted on 12/02/2020 4:59:54 AM PST by Skywise
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To: MtnClimber
"My name is Sasha Abramsky. I was born in England in 1972, grew up in London, and studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Balliol College, Oxford. I got my B.A. in 1993 and moved to New York to study journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. I lived in the Big Apple for ten years, before moving to California in 2003. I currently live in Sacramento with my wife and two kids."

If you live your whole life in a toilet, you will probably end up thinking like a turd.. I feel sorry for the kids..

34 posted on 12/02/2020 5:00:16 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: Jewbacca

Yep they are not “liberals” and we all need to stop referring to them as such. They are Marxists aka Totalitarians plain and simple.


35 posted on 12/02/2020 5:00:37 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: MtnClimber

these people are truly brain-damaged


36 posted on 12/02/2020 5:00:47 AM PST by wny
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To: Russ

“...That’s a smash-worthy face....”

While others view it as just another “target-rich environment”.


37 posted on 12/02/2020 5:01:12 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: MtnClimber
What a wuss! Grow a pair, Sasha, since you never had one.

Not just prosecuted, but tortured as well to get him to confess all his crimes against the people! And Melania should be waterboarded to force her to confess to her crucifying LGBTQ and trans children upside down. And slicing their throats to drain out their blood so that the Trumps can drink it at their Christmas dinner. And then there is that arch-criminal Barron, whom we can feed into a shredder slowly. Oh, the things we can do to these spawn of perdition once our Lord and Saviour Joseph of Delaware (or is it Scranton?) is on the thrione. We will make them pay for their refusal to accept others and to be tolerant. Oh, how we will make them pay! Die, die, die, Trump family! (/liberal)

38 posted on 12/02/2020 5:02:29 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: MtnClimber

It’s a commie rag. Why publicize it?

Otherwise Beside that, there was a thread last week that said Trump might consider giving himself a full pardon for all crimes real or imagined, during his tenure.


39 posted on 12/02/2020 5:03:36 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kil l you. )
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To: Lockbox

Not only is there no evidence, he doesn’t even mention a specific crime, just stuff he doesn’t like about Trump.

I guess it sells to the low information voters.


40 posted on 12/02/2020 5:04:24 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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