Opening statements begin on monday. And according to the judge, quote, this trial is starting. So long we have been using the word erosion on trumps institutions and americas faith in them f. This weeks spectacle showed us any, the term erosion the flow of water, slow and steady, might be under stating the immediate danger. We should think of the harm done to the structure of our democracy like a tidal wave, Flash Flooding possible. Try as we might to board up the windows to be kept from being swept away there is damage more and more every second. Some jurors so frightened or intimidated from doing their basic civic duty that some were moved to tears in the courthouse as they were today for fear of retaliation. You can see it in the way the disgraced president lies in the case and the way everyone is in if. He conditioned his followers to Distrust Anything and everything outside the sealed mega bubble. The Executive Director of protect democracy described it to us like this. I think pe
You know, talking to a lot of people. We had sound bites from him at waco. He Sound Bytes from him at waco. He was upset about the government overreach there and what exactly was he upset about in waco . He was upset that the same military vehicles that he had used in the Gulf War were being used against american citizens. And in his mind to see the militarization of law enforcement. But it was also the drugs. The drug angle. That was the atf. Came up with a rational, really. Yes. A rational so it would make it legit to use military movement. That was one of his grievances was the War On Drugs and the militarization of law enforcement. When he saw those Tanks Puncturing and firing Tear Gas into the compound he said that