silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAmerica Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chancewww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square98linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareCosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoAmerica didn’t give Trump a second chance. That implies he was caught and convicted, and punished for something he did wrong. He did not spend a single day in jail. His sentence in New York was effectively commuted. He was never even charged at the federal level. He was allowed to continue his tyranny. Because Democrats refused to actually hold him to account.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month ago Because Democrats refused to actually hold him to account. because they don’t want to set any precedents for their own fuckery.
America didn’t give Trump a second chance. That implies he was caught and convicted, and punished for something he did wrong.
He did not spend a single day in jail. His sentence in New York was effectively commuted.
He was never even charged at the federal level.
He was allowed to continue his tyranny.
Because Democrats refused to actually hold him to account.
because they don’t want to set any precedents for their own fuckery.
It’s all gotta go