Earlier today, I had the opportunity to ask some old prep-school chums about something I consider to be absurd: the U.S. Supreme Court’s considering the idea that the president of the United States should enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution.
One such “chum,” the only conservative in the group, pointed out that presidents have done things in the past, e.g. dropping the first atomic bomb and sending troops into Vietnam, for which he could have been criminally charged. Such immunity would enable the president to do what he thinks right, and not be worried about going to prison for it.
An interesting response, to be sure, though both of these examples are potential war crimes, which are prosecuted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In any case, this seems to be red herring. What we’re concerned about here is something very real and concrete that would definitely be, and, in all likelihood will be, prosecuted within state or federal jurisdictions.
In particular, there is ample evidence that Donald Trump tried to overthrow the U.S. government, which, if he had been successful, would have made him a king, rather than a public servant. Are we saying that this is a valid direction for our nation to take?
As we look at the rankings of the 50 states in terms of education, we notice immediately that the states at the bottom still love Trump, even as his approval ratings have plummeted to 34% due to his sociopathic criminality and his clear intent to remain in office, just like his heroes in Russia, China, Turkey, Hungary, and another 40+ nations around the globe.
From this, we can infer one of the two diametrically opposite things:
1) College cranks out liberals, because it’s their mission to build of the population of woke liberal sissies who will steadily force our nation into socialism, the acceptance of gays and blacks, and the punishing of the wealthy to enrich the poor.
2) Educated people will call out blatant lies, e.g., that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump by massive voter fraud, Trump is innocent of raping children, that bombing Iran is justified because of their threat to attack us first, and that the United States is not rapidly being refashioned into an authoritarian regime.
I’m sure this is the case in all 50 states.
In the U.S., you could no more get a conviction under these circumstances than you could fly to the moon on a surfboard.
Bertrand Russell has been dead for more than half a century, as so we can only speculate as to what he’d have to say about the Trump MAGA base.
If these people are anything, they’re cock-sure that God sent Trump to save our country from ruination by the radical left.
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