have power - the federalist society was already created a pipeline for the supreme court. mitch mcconnell had alread sold on the seat from th sitting president, barac obama. all of that preceded donal trump. and all of that tells us a lot about where we are now trump was an incredibl powerful, dangerous, awful too of that party. but and he actually permitted us t see if some of these things, which i think both democrats and the political media were willfully blind to for a lon time that s part of the conversatio you just had but right now, in this moment, where he is being tried fo things, indicted for thing that actually are not about th harm he did to the nation they may include legal accountability for crimes he has committed. the amount of attention bein directed to him worries me because it makes me think that people are going to think we have somehow solved the proble by getting donald trump. and that could not be furthe from the truth
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at donald trump s indictment before your twitter fee explodes, i just think it fair, without giving away th story, that i really think everybody should read, that yo do conclude with the idea that he can hold both thoughts at the same time, right you can enjoy the fact tha donald trump may be facing justice and realize the fact that it may have nothing to do with solving our large problem. but you heard that conversatio you didn t write this as a media criticism, necessarily but the whole issue of everything that is going on in these laboratories of autocrac that are our state legislature that are run by republicans, i some cases, as we were pointin out in tennessee, where they don t run against anybody a lot of these people ar claimed. they re not even people runnin against some of these people right what do we do to make sur everybody realize because it s not as heavy and convenien about donald trump at focusing you energies on him. how do you focus your energy o somethi
singularity of trump as this kind of tacky criminal and being abl to finally get him, i think it makes other members of his party, who are arguably more dangerous weather you are talking abou ron desantis, whether you talk about brian kemp, greg abbott, whether you re talking about the republican legislatures and you are just describin some of what we are seeing the do full on attacks on human beings on health care, on voting rights, gerrymandering, districts, trying to seize all the mechanisms of politica power in this country and none of those things necessarily have anything to d with donald trump. and if we permit ourselves t think that there is some sor of and goal in putting him i prison, it takes so much of ou attention away from thes crucial fights all around th country right now. democracy is in dire danger. but it is not going to be we are not going to be saved from that danger in lowe manhattan at 100 center street