Politics @beehaw.org Peaces @infosec.pub 1 yr. ago

Trump has been indicted before. Historians say this time is different.

Scholars say the new charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 election pose a unique test for the rule of law and go to the core of the threat to democracy

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I want to believe...
- Same. It’s hard to care about these clickbait titles when nothing has stuck to him or changed his supporter’s opinions.
  
  We’ve seen his lawyer go to prison before and that pattern may repeat here. We’ll just have to see whether he ends up seeing the inside of a cell along with them.
  
  Worse, his poling seems to improve after each indictment. He's good at spinning them into narratives that gain him support.
  
  Luckily, voting plays zero role in court cases. Changing the minds of the electorate is never the goal of a criminal case, and as to "nothing has stuck to him" ... that's simply not true. (And even if it were, past performance is not indicative of future results.)
Until he's in prison, none of this back and forth matters. Exhausting.

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