I once detested the Democratic Party. For me, this was the gathering of the Kennedys and Franklin Delano Roosevelt—great, if flawed, officials who helped change America during the nineteenth century. Coming of age in the 1990s, I saw Bill Clinton as the perfect example of all those wonderful Liberals.
That is why I worked so hard to get a job at the Clinton White House, even though it only had a few months left as Al Gore and George W. Bush battled in the Supreme Court and cynicism rose in the West Wing ( anyone remember the missing” Ws” from White House keyboards? )? —and why I spent a significant portion of my job attempting to choose Democrats, including Joe Biden, in 2020.
However, I also reside and work in the real world, so I have witnessed the harm that the Democrat Party has caused to America during Biden’s rule. And it’s getting worse. Watch the case against former president Trump and the heinous conviction he received next week.
The threat the innocent verdict poses for America has already been extensively exposed. It is a dangerous step for a nation that established the international standard for equal-handed democratic government. It is an extraordinary act of political retribution in American history. Additionally, it reflects a shoddy and slanted legal system. In fact, I have a suspicion that the majority of Trump supporters believe their convictions may be overturned on appeal. They may be ideal.
That makes no difference. Trump’s prosecutors had one goal: to portray him as a” convicted criminal” and provide Biden with an excuse not to question him or otherwise deal with his campaign rigors. In that regard, Trump’s prosecution is comparable to the shutdowns and fear of 2020, when Democrats used Covid- 19 as an justification to halt the democratic campaign and keep Biden from the attention of the public.
When did my frustration with Biden begin? It has only grown. As I have written abroad, Biden’s leadership has done everything that Democrats said Trump would do to destroy democracy: prosecute their social opponents, suppress dissent, attack families, and destroy the world with rarely- ending foreign wars. And if Biden wins a second word, things only get worse.
This does not imply that I dislike Trump. I’m concerned that despite the enormous public assistance he has received following the ruling, he may revert to the traditional Democratic he once held in office as during his first term. I’m concerned that he lacks the academic grit and control to operate in a real disaster.
After all, the Covid anxiety started on Trump’s view. I think the amazing times we are currently living in call for extraordinary authority. I have a lot of serious doubts about Trump’s capacity to provide that, in part because I doubt that he has the humility to cross the hall and work with those who are trying to arrest him, everything that America needs to return from this dangerous time.
In that regard, I disagree with a writer’s claim that Republicans must sue high-ranking Democrats for their mistakes in order to escape the politicized Trump trial. Republicans started this in the 1990s when they defended shady legal proceedings against a president they could n’t defeat at the ballot box by using Clinton’s shady personal life, as the pollster Mark Penn pointed out.
The best way to answer to this obscene behavior is to reject Democrats instead of giving them the vote they believe they deserve. That might indicate that you support Trump. Perhaps that means you will cast your vote for Cornel West or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Perhaps it means you wo n’t vote for president, something I never, but I can understand it.
But do n’t reward Biden and hope things will get better. They wo n’t. This is not about Trump, just like the Monica Lewinsky impeachment was n’t about Clinton. It’s about energy. It’s about denying American a fair playing field to debate the issues and determine which way the country should go, just as the DNC denied Liberals who wanted it a good key strategy.
To his credit, Penn is one of the few Democrats who formally opposed both the Clinton and Trump laws. Great for him. My companion RFK, Jr., is another. Add my name to that listing.
This give a communication to all people in power: American has real problems. We need true answers. No matter how much you may despise them, if Trump, RFK, or anyone else wants to talk about those concerns, we may let them.
In Los Angeles, Scott Street is a Democrat expert and attorney. He frequently writes about legal and political dilemmas.
