Behind the tweets: Indictments of the Trump Org are important, but it will take indicting Trump to begin serving justice and shifting the narrative he's above the law
It’s been astonishing to me to watch the Trump family operate 24/7 as if the law doesn’t apply to them, but there’s an element of their mentality that almost defies description. It’s not just that they behave as if the law doesn’t apply to them, it’s an absolute absence of acknowledgment that it even exists. Maybe that’s what is commonly known as arrogance. I don’t know.
My fear is that Donny will die before he can be punished. Narcissistic sociopathic sadists will never accept the notion they’ve done anything wrong or unjustified, that’s the essence of who they are. Nevertheless, the amount of suffering he has intentionally inflicted over his entire lifetime should be avenged in order to rebalance the universe. I’m a “glass half full” person, or in other words, I’m an optimist.
I believe our minds are far more powerful than we realize, meaning it’s not an exercise of futility for each of us to use our minds to project the idea of balance and optimism into the universe rather than punishment and retribution. That’s my way of saying, thank you Steven for projecting positive thoughts about our ability to recover from the depravity of the Trump administration.
Thank you, Susan. I do think it's a challenge to both confront the criminal depravity as clearly as one can while also maintaining optimism that our higher values and better angels can still triumph. But try we must.
"(A)ll of us who yearn for justice" must be careful not to let our yearning interfere with our own reason. A U.S. war criminal just died peacefully in his sleep. Another's fake heart still beats. A serial rapist is released on a technicality. I ask you, as a serious historian, look at the record of the sociopaths and criminals who have skated in the U.S. Ask yourself, tell us, what really are the odds DJT will ever face justice? We can handle the truth.
My view is there are enough prosecutors working to hold him accountable that he will face justice in one court or another. Like Al Capone, though, it most likely won’t be for the most egregious crimes.
Thank you. I hope you are right. And yet it's hard to escape the degradation of our justice system when being held to account for the most egregious crimes is avoided by the worst of the worst.
“But if you’re demoralized and resigned to that view of corruption, then you’ve probably sat on the sidelines while others fought for justice.” This. I will admit to standing on the sidelines some this last year due to the pandemic. I really admired those who marched for George Floyd, risking their own lives to make that statement. I yearned to be out there with them, but couldn’t overcome the health aspects. I did manage to donate goods in person to the CHAZ, but it wasn’t the same feeling as marching for justice.
It’s been astonishing to me to watch the Trump family operate 24/7 as if the law doesn’t apply to them, but there’s an element of their mentality that almost defies description. It’s not just that they behave as if the law doesn’t apply to them, it’s an absolute absence of acknowledgment that it even exists. Maybe that’s what is commonly known as arrogance. I don’t know.
My fear is that Donny will die before he can be punished. Narcissistic sociopathic sadists will never accept the notion they’ve done anything wrong or unjustified, that’s the essence of who they are. Nevertheless, the amount of suffering he has intentionally inflicted over his entire lifetime should be avenged in order to rebalance the universe. I’m a “glass half full” person, or in other words, I’m an optimist.
I believe our minds are far more powerful than we realize, meaning it’s not an exercise of futility for each of us to use our minds to project the idea of balance and optimism into the universe rather than punishment and retribution. That’s my way of saying, thank you Steven for projecting positive thoughts about our ability to recover from the depravity of the Trump administration.
Thank you, Susan. I do think it's a challenge to both confront the criminal depravity as clearly as one can while also maintaining optimism that our higher values and better angels can still triumph. But try we must.
"(A)ll of us who yearn for justice" must be careful not to let our yearning interfere with our own reason. A U.S. war criminal just died peacefully in his sleep. Another's fake heart still beats. A serial rapist is released on a technicality. I ask you, as a serious historian, look at the record of the sociopaths and criminals who have skated in the U.S. Ask yourself, tell us, what really are the odds DJT will ever face justice? We can handle the truth.
My view is there are enough prosecutors working to hold him accountable that he will face justice in one court or another. Like Al Capone, though, it most likely won’t be for the most egregious crimes.
Thank you. I hope you are right. And yet it's hard to escape the degradation of our justice system when being held to account for the most egregious crimes is avoided by the worst of the worst.
“But if you’re demoralized and resigned to that view of corruption, then you’ve probably sat on the sidelines while others fought for justice.” This. I will admit to standing on the sidelines some this last year due to the pandemic. I really admired those who marched for George Floyd, risking their own lives to make that statement. I yearned to be out there with them, but couldn’t overcome the health aspects. I did manage to donate goods in person to the CHAZ, but it wasn’t the same feeling as marching for justice.
Thank you so much for this column! You give me hope that justice will finally prevail! And that we are a country of laws and decency.
Thank you, Nancy.
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