Quote (IceMage @ Aug 8 2022 09:08pm)
Can I explain why Trump cultists are dead inside?
People like Goomshill, or Endlesssky, or other PaRD regulars, are going(or already have) to try to justify Trump's attempt at stealing the 2020 election. And they'll do so because the need to win politically far outweighs the need to be ethical. The small win they get far outweighs, for them, the need to accurately represent the voters. They are just part of the game, and they take pride in being a small part of the manipulation. A small part in this unethical manipulation makes sense, because of some grandiose reasoning based on politicians in the minority.
And that's where you're projecting your own hyperpartisanship and embrace of delusional theories onto others. I don't have to justify Trump's "attempt at stealing the 2020 election" because Trump didn't attempt to steal the 2020 election. He threw a hissy fit, he twisted arms and made declarations and all the other trappings of impotent fury. He tried to exhaust every legal option and delaying tactic and find any hint of fraud he could exploit to win back a swing state. And when push came to shove, he left office like he was supposed to. He's free to make all the commentary he wants, he didn't abuse his office to stay in power. And when he was in power, whether by conscious prudence or just providence, he managed to restore sanity at the DoJ under Bill Barr who went out of his way to quash the weaponization and politicization of law enforcement- even to the point of dashing Trump's ambitions.
Merrick Garland's DoJ, on the other hand, has embraced the tactics of Beria. Raid journalists homes in the night. Lock up protesters. Invent new reasons and contrivances to suppress opposition politicians. He's making Hoover look like a chump, why bother with cloak and dagger tactics and campaigns of intimidation and blackmail when you can simply break down their door and throw them in handcuffs? Even if their only 'crime' is being an economist who posits that free trade is a zero sum game.