THE NATIONAL CURRENT
Well, the White Christian President got hit with 37 counts of federal crime this week, which, as counts of federal crime go, seems to me like a lot of federal crimes—for a presidential candidate, anyway.
What did he do? Oh boy!
So yes, practically speaking, these crimes are a problem for the perpetrators.
But I know I’m not the only person who has noticed that the national current runs the opposite direction.
Apparently prosecuting a flagrantly criminal ex-president and current presidential candidate is dangerous, and inherently political, and unprecedented, in ways that running a criminal as a candidate for president isn’t.
Apparently talking about the Republican Party accurately as an anti-democracy fascist criminal organization would be far more biased than pretending the lie that they are still a viable political party interested in participating in the governance of the country.
Apparently, a White Christian President’s crimes do not corrode the rule of law, but using due process to charge him with crimes and giving him his day in court will demolish it entirely.
Apparently, giving a White Christian President his day in court represents destabilizing political retaliation, while threatening political retaliation in response to due process is a normal and expected reaction for members of the White Christian Party to have.
Refusing to look backward is almost always framed as unifying and positive, while looking backward and reporting on what we see is almost always framed as divisive and negative. We’re not interested in unity with victims, it seems.
Unity is a gift we save for the perpetrators.
It’s an acknowledgement, made without even the intention to do so, of who counts and who doesn’t.
The White Christian President counts.
The people who he has harmed and killed do not, nor do those he will harm and kill in the future if he isn’t stopped.
To digress somewhat: as White Christian President was being charged for his 37 federal crimes, Pat Robertson died, which is one of the best things he’s ever done.
In case you don’t know, Robertson was a permanently-elderly gnomish televangelist kept alive for decades by pure living and even purer hate, and he is the reason your sainted granny spent her final decades falling into a far-right reactionary supremacist cult, or at least he’s the reason mine did.
It seems that for a lot of people, there is a danger in letting an abuser’s abuse be remembered for what it was; something more troublingly unseemly about acknowledging abuse as it ends that doesn’t apply to its long decades of approved continuance.
It seems that on a fundamental level, those who mourn the passing of an abuser count, and those who were forced by his abuse to mourn his life do not.
I think it speaks less to a desire for decency and more the ways we would like to remember indecency. Or, more accurately, the way we’d rather forget it.
This is seemingly instinctive and automatic, like an allergic response; a rhetorical sneeze expelling consequence for abuse from the national system like ragweed pollen.
It’s unmissable, once you’ve seen it.
It’s also invisible, if you don’t want to see it.
Not seeing it is treated as normal—precedented—in a way that seeing it is not.
@JuliusGoat relatedly, in the UK, ministers lie in parliament all the time, and they suffer no repercussions.
However, if this is pointed out by another person, that person is at fault for daring to accuse the liar of lying
The rules are based upon the belief that those in power will be honourable and act with the best of intentions, when the opposite is true more often
"Republican billionaire donors fund malign influence narratives to create 'alternative facts'.
Those 'facts' are always backwards and upside down like any other propaganda campaign. "
Crucifixion, I guess, is out of the question
I'll interpret it as he's the president of white christians, but he himself is not a christian, and is just using them as they are him.
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