A "Surreal" Day in American History
There is no precedent for what took place today. The U.S. now enters unchartered political waters.
Let’s begin where rubber met road.
The rumors of a Trump indictment from New York seemed to be more of the same noise destined to fizzle out like the many previous political attacks thrown his way.
Until today.
Trump apparently felt genuine surprise—his social media post minutes before the indictment shows shock and disbelief—as if he expected some sort of last-minute reprieve:
Democrat Alvin Bragg went forward with what many Americans are calling a politically motivated prosecution. Many legal experts are calling the case “paper thin.”
Investigative Journalist Molly Hemingway pointed out the poignancy of Trump’s Truth Social bio:
Many Americans can now see in hindsight that if not for Trump’s unplanned, unexpected election win in 2016—the U.S. would be further along in the globalist agenda today.
No matter what you think about Trump—there’s no denying that. Hillary would have been completely on board with the WEF. Who knows—she might have been worse than Biden.
This is where we are now:
From The Free Press:
Another explanation is Bragg grasps that, even if he loses his case against Trump, there will always be a lot of voters, activists, and other professional Democrats who don’t care what crime Trump is alleged to have committed, so long as he is indicted for something—anything. This is the series finale the Trump resistance has dreamed of since 2017. What does it matter if the actual case resembles a Rube Goldberg contraption and is predicated on a novel legal theory?
In other words, Bragg will still win politically even if he loses in court.
And that is the biggest problem with today’s arraignment. The district attorney’s political interests do not align with those of the republic. He wants to satisfy the most extreme partisans on his own side. It’s a similar problem that elected officials from Republican states face. So don’t be surprised when an ambitious Republican prosecutor from, say, Texas or South Carolina indicts Hunter Biden on a similarly thin legal pretext. Bragg has set a new precedent in American politics, and we should expect Republicans to take advantage of the new standards he’s just created. Indeed, Republicans who do not take advantage of the new rules will be accused of being weak.
All of this raises a question—not just for Bragg, but for the Democratic Party, the online resistance, and the media ecosystem that seems to exist simply to stoke outrage about Donald Trump for its overstimulated, progressive base: Is it worth it? Is the catharsis of seeing Trump indicted worth the damage a politicized prosecution of the former president will do? Because indicting Trump in this way, at this time, is an in-kind donation to his own presidential primary campaign. If the latest polling is correct, then Trump’s approval ratings have ticked up since the announcement of his indictment.
Many of Trump’s supporters have for years thought that he’s the victim of a series of witch hunts and this prosecution is just the latest in a series of injustices. That is not entirely true. The District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, for example, is conducting a serious investigation into Trump’s strong-arming of state officials in 2020 and 2021 to find him votes in the election that he lost. Good luck convincing Republicans and independents that the results of that investigation are legitimate after today.
Trump justifies his own flouting of rules because he says the system is rigged against him. Why is Alvin Bragg trying to prove his point?
If you would like to see the indictment, you can here.
“It was the most important courthouse appearance in recent memory to answer for one of the weakest indictments in New York history.” — Techno Fog
Twitter Reactions to Today’s Circus:
No matter what else is happening in the world, the “elephant in the room” is still with us. He hasn’t budged. Yet, the media matrix is still mostly ignoring said elephant.
