David Rothkopf: We got here because there have been no consequences for Trump's abuses...

[Nevilledog]

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David Rothkopf
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Just had to turn off CNN. Can't listen to one more pol bloviate about how Trump shouldn't be impeached because it will make healing harder. Have they not been paying attention? We got here because there have been no consequences for Trump's abuses...or those of predecessors.
8:50 AM · Jan 8, 2021

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Just had to turn off CNN. Can't listen to one more pol bloviate about how Trump shouldn't be impeached because it will make healing harder. Have they not been paying attention? We got here because there have been no consequences for Trump's abuses...or those of predecessors.

Without consequences for Trump and those who supported this sedition and those who enabled his corruption and those who collaborated with a foreign enemy and those who obstructed justice THERE WILL BE NO HEALING.

The impunity of the empowered is what has fueled our current crisis & enabled them to inflame political divisions. Lincoln was wrong to let Confederate traitors off the hook. Ford was wrong to let Nixon off the hook. GHWBush was wrong to let the Iran-Contra crowd off the hook.

Obama was wrong to let torturers and Wall Street thieves off the hook. In so doing they all undermined our system by eroding accountability--the ultimate check against abuse of power.

There will be no healing if another is tempted to follow in Trump's corrupt, seditions, traitorous footsteps because they know they can get away with it.

To repeat: Healing is not about feeling better, it is about getting better.

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[Dawson Leery]

1. Impeach!

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. or any republican president - Reagan, Dubya...

we just "move on" - and the bar keeps getting changed.

We can't move on from this until there are clear severe consequences.

[Irish_Dem]

4. The truth will set you free, but first it will hurt like hell.

There is no healing without facing the truth about what happened.
And appropriate actions are taken.

[exboyfil]

5. Fascists only understand a punch in the nose

Has any fascist ever compromised?

We understood that in World War II. Churchill understood it, Chamberlain didn't. Roosevelt understood it, Lindbergh didn't. It is here on our shores.

[grumpyduck]

6. I just wrote a letter to my three reps,

including Pelosi and Harris, about this, and posted it here. It's down a ways.

[stillcool]

7. Nothing changes, nothing changes

the Republican party is responsible for everything it has done, collectively and individually.

[Brother Mythos]

8. Lock him up!

What the world witnessed on Wednesday was the final offensive of a failed coup attempt. Trump, and all of his co-conspirators, should be severely punished for this crime.

[beachbumbob]

9. We got here because rightwing suprenacist and hate groups were NOT ALLOWED to classified

as terror organizations as FBI been asking for nearly 30 years andconsider the top threat from ALL studies have indicated our greatest threat is homebased by such groups. Jan6 th is the RESULT

[Kablooie]

10. And nearly all Republicans followed and supported Trump's crimes all the way.

[sanatanadharma]

11. Getting better requires reconciliation

Reconciliation requires "truth"
Truth requires investigation
Investigation falsifies false-facts
Healing requires false-fact-ectomy