Politics often bring angles and illusion, flours and distractions. Navigating space between hope and reality is one of the necessary skills. But sometimes events require a simple reaction.
Namely:
Do you think it's okay to attack a police officer Dive an electrical chest several times in his neck?
How about Use of an uprising sign to smash a police officer In a metal door frame and injured him and bloody?
Every problem with someone who spends more than an hour to tackle law enforcement officers With pepper spray, metal crutch and wood and metal bars?
President Trump seems to be in order with the above, a tiny fraction of the crime scene that was committed when a swarm of rioters overran the Capitol to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. The perpetrators mentioned above-more like Sie hearing to the approximately 1,500 criminal accused, which Trump pardoned only a few hours after taking office.
How is it to make America safe again, as was promised in his entire commandment of the White House?
If every candidate who is fighting under the banner of the Republican Party of Trump, who has long described itself as a party of law and order and “support of the blue” -should be made to reconcile with the term of the President's unholy law who claimed the president's attitude.
And please none of it yeah-, but what times In relation to the misguided use of his powers of President Biden, before leaving the Oval Office. None of the apologies who only steal a pepper spray from the police in an example and distribute them to the attacker and attack officials as part of a “war” against the government.
If you see no difference, you need more help than your friendly political columnist can offer.
Trump's fun house version of justice may not play a role for voters or even changes the perception of the two major parties easily.
“If American campaigns were logical, this would be a big problem for the Republicans,” said Jack Pitney, a political professor at Claremont McKenna College, who worked for the National GOP during the government of George HW Bush.
“But campaigns are not logical,” he said. “When Republican candidates talk about law and order, they talk about street crime, the things that people meet every day. They simply put things like attacking the Capitol in a separate box. “
Many people voted for Trump's return to the White House “knew that it would be chaotic”, as Rob Stutzman, a GOP strategy and no fan of the President, put it. This recognition came into their decision, said Stutzman, and “they will tolerate some of the nutball things” when the president promises how to secure the American borders.
Fair, it should be noted that there were some post-portion votes from Republicans. including GOP senators Who criticized the extent of Trumps. However, nothing was a great outcry or a serious Republican counter reaction.
The spokesman for the house, Mike Johnson, said reporters that it was time to go forward and not to look back, a mantra that was widespread in party ranks – except, of course, about these forgives.
Surveys, including one that was carried out directly according to Trump's Amnestie Ordinance, showed that around 60% of the respondents were against the pardon of the perpetrators on January 6th. This means that a non-not-standing number of Americans has no problem turning loose cop buildings and uprising, probably as long as Trump lower the price for eggs, bacon and petrol.
Let us wait and see. We are less than two weeks in the Trump government and the junior elections 2026 are almost 650 days. The next chance The voters nationwide must strain on the direction of the country and the performance of the president.
When it comes to those that arose on January 6, “we know what will happen,” said Bill Carrick, a democratic campaign strategist. “Bad actors got out and they will do something bad.”
In fact, a Capitol randalier was only pardoned by Trump last weekend killed by a representative of a sheriff of Indiana During a traffic stop after landing with an officer.
The Democrats will “emphasize” to emphasize these types of cases, said Carrick and presented the script for a campaign display that practically writes: “He was convicted of x number of years. Trump let him out of prison and looked at what he did. “
The country crossed a dubious threshold on November 5 when, as Pitney, “a convicted criminal who had a violent uprising against the United States government (was) observed as President,” observed.
And here we are.
But this insult to our ideals is not a reason to stuff crime into a souvenir hole from January 6th or “get over”, as some Trump supporters spin.
We cannot cover these lawbreakers behind grids. But their apologists and political patrons can be held accountable if it is time to coordinate again. You should be.
It is necessary to preserve and protect our country and make America safe again.