Summary
Democrats blame Attorney General Merrick Garland for delaying prosecution of Donald Trump over the January 6 Capitol attack, allowing him to win reelection before facing trial.
Critics argue Garland wasted critical time before appointing a special prosecutor in late 2022, enabling Trump to evade accountability due to DOJ policy barring prosecution of sitting presidents.
While Trump faces ongoing civil lawsuits, his return to power threatens pardons for convicted rioters and continued revisionism about the attack.
Despite public disapproval of Trump’s actions, he successfully leveraged misinformation to regain the presidency.
i don’t know whats worse: that this happened, or that i don’t know a single person irl who isn’t just pretending like nothing happened and everything is going to be fine–even staunchly liberal antitrumpers
What are you expecting them to be doing instead? What are you doing differently than them?
organize, prepare, contingency planning-- but it’s tough for one person acting alone because everyone just doesn’t want to think about unpleasant things. so they don’t.
This is the key question…
The “don’t look up” phase