Protecting Trump’s enemies from prosecution just reinforces the idea of politics as retribution. Instead, Democrats should be defending his most vulnerable targets.

Protecting Trump’s enemies from prosecution just reinforces the idea of politics as retribution. Instead, Democrats should be defending his most vulnerable targets.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    228·
    9 days ago

    Any other actions that Biden could take through Executive Order would be reversible, no?

    Then make trump do it. Make a bunch of popular executive orders. Let trump be the bad guy.

    Oh wait. That’s not pardoning a cokehead or supplying a genocide, which are the only things he’s willing to do, and you’ll forgive the former because he’s doing the latter.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      74·
      9 days ago

      I forgive the former because he’s already outlived two children and I wouldn’t trust them not to just go full kangaroo court.

      Edit: I absolutely do not excuse the latter

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        9 days ago

        I’d be a lot more likely to forgive the former if he hadn’t been so fucking dedicated to norms when it could have mattered for people not named Hunter or Bibi.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      9 days ago

      Bidens son was definitely used for political reasons. He had a plea deal and the GOP didn’t want that so for it thrown out.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 days ago

        Bidens son was definitely used for political reasons.

        I don’t care if he was. If Biden can ignore norms and his own word to pardon Hunter, he could have ignored norms at any point during his presidency on behalf of people who aren’t as connected as his junkie progeny. He chose not to.