one way to definitely get another Trump — or just Trump again — is to pretend like he didn’t spend four years doing crimes https://twitter.com/kevinmkruse/status/1328696351497007104

hey maybe one problem that needs to be solved is rampant criminality from the president and his family

perhaps one way to appeal to some of those 73 million is to show with evidence and investigations that the man they invested their hopes in was a crook who fleeced them at every opportunity

“looking forward” after watergate got us iran-contra, “looking forward” after iran-contra got us an illegal torture program, “looking forward” after the illegal torture program got us the entire trump administration.

what’s especially fun is that it’s the same recurring cast of characters from watergate to trump

dick cheney went from being the pro-nixon chief of staff to gerry ford to the pro-war secretary of defense under george h.w. bush to bush jr.’s pro-war and pro-torture vice president

bill barr justified rendition policies under george h.w. bush, urged pardons for iran-contra conspirators, and then came back under trump to put forth a monarchial view of presidential power

it is a near-certainty that the next crime-ridden republican administration — where, i don’t know, the president will try to detain his enemies in FEMA camps — will have learned their first lessons under dubya or trump