So, the Jack Smith report dropped recently and it's getting media attention. I don't go into all of the details, but the long story short is that we pretty much had an ironclad case against Trump in terms of inciting an insurrection, and now he's never going to see justice.
When January 6th happened and people were calling to arrest him, I was more defensive of free speech and being like, well, we don't know if this is incitement and it sets a bad precedent to go after him for just saying stuff like fight like hell. No, apparently, we had proof. Apparently he was watching the TV and basically tweeting things that were basically egging on the protesters. He knew what he was doing. He wasn't innocent. We let the investigations happen and they showed that yeah, he was actually guilty. But then we did nothing. The trump defense team delayed it, it wasn't pushed aggressively enough, and now we just reelected his guy.
Look, there's a reason I didn't just go like third party, whatever this time around. The biggest reason is literally this. In 2016, I was willing to be like, whatever, the dems wanna hold the process hostage, let them F around and find out. This time around, I was like....no, we need to do something about this. He's getting too dangerous. I know we have a meme every 4 years when democrats say its the most important election of our lives, and this time around, it wasn't hyperbole. And we just F-ed up.
I hope this doesn't mean the downfall of democracy itself. But that's the scary thing, it could mean that. We should've never taken a chance with this guy again. It just incenses me. I feel like had the left been a bit more aggressive in playing it's hand, this would've been avoided. Maybe we would've ended up with JD Vance, Ron Desantis, or Nikki Haley, and I'm not saying any of those options were great, but at least they're sane. As long as we can keep coming back around every 4 years and being like, yeah, let's try this again, there's hope that things can change for the better. Historically, eventually the right lessons are learned, and eventually the progress that needs to happen does happen. Often times, it happens long after they try everything else. Abolitionists were pushing the end of slavery for decades before the cause went mainstream. The labor rights enshrined in the new deal were advocated for a full 50 years before they were implemented, but eventually, they happened. It takes a while for progress to happen, but eventually, it does happen.
All that goes out the window if we lose democracy. And we just elected a dude I liken to being another "Hitler" type figure. Brace yourselves, the next 4 years are gonna suck.
PS, for anyone who wants to read the full report: here you go.
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