There is a Shakesperean or at the least Godfather II irony to what we just witnessed in the ending of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial victory in just over a year. That being— Trump was right way back when he claimed he could shoot someone in broad daylight and it wouldn’t matter to his voters or even to the Heritage Foundation types who used to own the Republican Party.
Donald Trump was right and anyone in between was wrong as to how far America has devolved both culturally and in fundamental decency in these past five years since Trump decided to become America’s first open pussy grabbing Christian evangelical draft dodging dictator.
Some will say this was a moral victory for democracy in that those in power beat the over/under of 56 senators in getting to the 57 vote plateau, but in essence what this was …was a day even darker than January 6th when Trump’s domestic terrorists invaded the nation’s capitol and left five dead in their wake of Donald Trump directed terror.
What this verdict was is a singular marker of how far America has fallen from the country of exceptionalism and aspirationalism to the tawdry base level of being Trump’s version of Jerry Springer Live from either the White House or Mar A Largo.
America has fallen so low its alleged best lawyers from the House couldn’t even get to the 60 vote plateau with all of January 6th on video for all of the world to witness ad nauseum.
Trump had a legal team headed by an insurance personal injury lawyer which seemed more fitting for Mr. Pillow’s defense team than the 45th POTUS and not only won the trial, but didn’t even have to endure one witness tesstifying in front of the country on television.
It’s beyond the realm this is the same country which won WWII, put a man on the moon, passed Civil Rights legislation, won the Cold War, and killed Bin Laden.
This trial was in a word pathetic and a historic marker of how much the Democrats and Republicans distrust each other. That in essence, they mutually allowed Donald Bin Laden to merely walk away from this with no retribution for any of his actions these past five years.
Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, the two most previously owned by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, were the main enablers of all of this—but to a ceratin extent all of America should get an assist for what this counry has become in the last five years.
Namely…a transactional whorehouse which is a disgrace to America’s greatest generation which defeated Hitler and of which Tom Brokaw wrote about in his book… The Greatest Generation.
Does anyone walking and breathing today in America think for a second what we just witnessed from Joe Biden’s Democratic Party and Mitch McConnell’s GOP— that this America is going to go get Donald Bin Laden? Let alone put him in a federal prison for his role in the deaths of those five humans, and somehow restore any sense of moral realignment in America after what we just witnessed?
Count me as one who doesn’t.
Instead, what Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham did was kick the can down the road again and in the process miss a glorious opportunity to begin the rehab process of what used to be America.
How sad.
John McCain should consider himself lucky he didn’t live long enough to be a member of this United States Senate.