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This is the reality. The best thing everyone including the doj could have done is stop even acknowledging his existence. Things like this are just fanning the MAGA flame.
Right, Trump will definately just go away if you cover your eyes and plug your ears...
Nope we need to stop this shit now. Letting him go only emboldens the next person who wants to do it.
Exactly this.
Anyone carefully read the history of the Roman Republic as it transitioned to dictatorship? All the democratic republican functions that set the foundation for governance still existed after the changeover. What was different was where the center of power lay. Sully pointed the way. Caesar learned from this (not enough, though). Octavius put it all together and, get this, Italy for 1700 years was not a democratic republic.
This is the cautionary tale that Americans could learn from. Alas, anyone who thinks or studies or does any manner of research is considered "elitist" and is quickly dismissed. Ignorance is no excuse, but it, apparently, is a state of being for too many Americans.
Maybe allowing the next person with his strength and without his weaknesses to succeed where he failed.