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Yes, let's create a martyr of Trump. Fantastic idea. No way that would have backfired. Nosiree.
Democrats tried to do things by the book. Legally. You know, the way things should be done. Not by escalating tensions with more violence.
Democrats are absolutely infuriated by all of this. The shear frustration that more is not able to be done. Hell, look at Jack Smith and everything he's been fighting for and trying to get pushed through. There have never been lawsuits like this brought against a former President - shit has to be airtight. You can't just walk into court and say, "Trump sucks, he's a menace, lock him up," and expect Trump to get hauled off to jail.
Your not being remotely realistic about how things SHOULD happen. Sure, the reactionary in me would have loved to know that the traitor got drawn and quartered, but the realist in me knows that it wouldn't have done anything but beget more violence and extremism from the right. Trump cronies structured the Judicial System in his favor, and yes. He's a fucking menace, but it's not likely we've lost here, Kamala will win and he'll get fucked. Let's do this legally, and not take the "Nuclear, who cares about the fallout" option.
Your first sentence but unironically.
Yikes. Thank god we don't have degenerates in charge that unironically believe that stuff like that is a good idea.
gonna jump in here to say you have a point. i was raised by Christian extremists and they basically worship martyrs. i was raised as a CHILD to prepare to be martyred for god. it is a noble, righteous thing. Trump being killed would have only fueled things further and created more fanatic activity imo