If I ran the U.S…(add your own)

[SodaAnt]

@mordant

There needs to be comeuppance for the assholes in power right now – Nuremberg style trials, real biting consequences for the terrible cruelties and harms of this regime. Otherwise they will lick their wounds, go underground, and patiently undermine whatever comes next, until they can do the whole thing again.

I agree, but I’m sure that won’t happen for two reasons: the Democrats will not do it because they’ll want “the nation to heal”, and because Trump will pardon every one of those assholes before he leaves office.

[cynical1]

Not to drift too far off topic, but I was around for Nixon. It cost the Republicans a few election cycles, but everyone forgot, enjoyed the Redford movie and moved on.

This will be no different. It started started with Gingrich, evolved into Trump and will likely mutate again, as viruses are prone to do. Populism is. That’s why we have a Senate…well, that’s what Madison and Hamilton said…

Back on topic, I’d deport Newt Gingrich to Eswatini

[mordant]

@SodaAnt

I agree, but I’m sure that won’t happen for two reasons: the Democrats will not do it because they’ll want “the nation to heal”, and because Trump will pardon every one of those assholes before he leaves office.

Sadly you are probably correct, and even if it happens, well, here we are a mere 80 years after Nuremberg and history is repeating anyway. I just think something substantive will help cement this regime in the national conscience as a shameful wound and will make us resistant to it for a longer period. Just as it was taboo for Germans to even have a decent standing army until recently, and even then it was less because of authoritarian impulses returning than because of the shift in world power from the US backing out of effective and reliable participation in NATO.