Heidi Li Feldman“The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusio … that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey.” 1/
‘“Our data on the USA goes back to 1789. What we’re seeing now is the most severe magnitude of democratic backsliding ever in the country,” says Staffan Lindberg, founder of the institute.’ 2/
“US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.” 3/
JustKathyWe can thank Joe #Biden for this. He refused to remove #TraitorTrump from the political arena and our lives, and now we're all suffering.
Josh@KathyLK @heidilifeldman Wouldn’t it be more useful to hold Trump accountable for his actions than to hold Biden accountable for Trump’s actions? 🤔
Duchamp PérezNo, because how do you hold Trump accountable for his actions unless you have someone prosecute him for treason, which is a federal crime? If you don't have anyone to prosecute him, how can he be held accountable? Your argument is circular, to say the least.
Biden could have picked a more aggressive Democrat for AG instead of a limp-dick Republican. And if Biden had ordered Garland to prosecute Trump and Garland refused, Biden could have replaced him. Read for yourself.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/merrick-garland-failures-explained
@KathyLK It's not impossible that he could have been held accountable in other ways during the biden admin, but your argument doesn't consider:
* He was held accountable in nearly any arena they thought they could get him in;
* Prosecution doesn't equate to a winning verdict (he was prosecuted for stealing US secret documents and the judge fell all over herself to not hold him accountable to the point where her superiors told her to cut it out);
* Congress?!? SCOTUS?!?!?
@KathyLK
For whatever it's worth, Garland was a *huge* disappointment to me. I think it's very possible that he played it too "safe," but he was also on some new ground. I'm not sure SCOTUS would've agreed with other findings and I think the thing I focus on the most is that I don't disagree that the "parking brake" failed but it's *more* concerning to me that the "service/foot brakes" seem to be out (state legislature, congress, judiciary).