Joyce Vance wrote this yesterday, "It is hard to preserve public confidence in the rule of law after the last eight years. But Smith seemed to be appealing to an idea we’ve touched on frequently—not letting Donald Trump drag everyone else down to his level. In that regard, even if they didn’t get to take their cases to trial, Smith believes his team succeeded. Many people have lost confidence in the sine qua non of our democracy, that no man is above the law. Smith wrote, “That is also why, in my decision-making, I heeded the imperative that ‘[n]o man in this country is so high that he is above the law.’” In Smith’s view, as he related his team’s work, this principle was of primary importance as they pursued the case, more than Trump’s ultimate fate. It’s a very different take. Trump may have made a mockery of the system, but in Smith’s view, prosecutors treated him like everyone else and that counts for something. It was the Supreme Court and ultimately the voting public that failed, not the prosecution."
I don't believe the voting public failed. I believe that Trump and his criminal co-conspirators stole the 2024 election because he knew that unless he returned to power, he would go to prison. Staring down the barrel of a lengthy prison sentence, even one at Mar-a-lago, he did what he needed to do to stay free and in power. I'm not sure why this obvious fact is not apparent to more people. I got into an argument with someone on Threads recently about this, and she just kept typing, "STOP!" over and over again, as if that single word meant something. "MATH!" I was tempted to write back. But simply writing something in all caps does not accomplish our goal-- I think that is reserved for Time. Time, which is slowly running out..... and we can only hope and pray that someone above our pay grade is doing something to save us all.
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