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Biden appointed the most feckless Republican to be his AG, who then predictably dithered and slow-walked the prosecutions and gave Trump a two year head start in running out the clock, which is one of the few things he is actually an expert at, as you pointed out.
But it was the timing that PAUSED his prosecutions, not the courts. Most of those cases are ready to become active when he's out of office, and that WILL happen.
When we take this country back, our Dem leaders WILL punish MAGA for their CRIMES, or they will get punished right alongside them. Cowardice and incompetence from our leaders will no longer be tolerated, no matter their political affiliation.
If only, I don't share your optimism. We could do that, but we are on track not to, as under the leadership of the establishment democrats we can't win, and the odds of not losing are vanishingly small, and even then it would kick the can down the road while things continue to degenerate.
Republicans are openly cheating every way they can, and there is nothing left to stop them. Biden didn't protect anyone that did their duty and defended elections, he didn't do anything to those that tried to pervert it. From the hundreds of death threats to election workers that went unpunished, to allowing generals that refused to back up the capitol until it was clear the coup would fail, to the Secret Service in on the coup, and deleting the text evidence of that despite being ordered not to. All without consequence.
When the army fails, it's the fault of the commander. The AG failing is no excuse, its not noble allowing captured federal agencies to remain so, and ignoring that he didn't say or do anything, leaving the Justice Department to tackle the seditionists alone, without back up. Without leading the charge, which enables and encourages everyone up and down the line to do what they can. There were no protests demanding they be prosecuted, the president didn't even talk about it, because the projections of the Republicans about politicizing the Justice Department.
January 2021 should have seen Garland being dismissed. At the end of that month he was already going to fail. By March at the latest, and should have been replaced. But all federal agencies fail in their statutory duties, and not directing executive branch agencies to fulfill their mission and duty is a failure in duty.
To think the same people are still in charge of the Party, that they have learned anything, is just not accurate as much as we would like to think so. I know it seems like they couldn't help but learn something, but they didn't.
And there s no excuse for their failure to see prosecutions in 4 years to be clear. Idk if you are suggesting it's not their fault, the attorneys working for the government, but they failed, they knew they were failing, they were staying in the club, not doing their duty.
Your scenarios require Democrats to not learn ANYTHING from their past behavior, and it's consequences. We cannot allow them, and especially incoming Democrats, to repeat their past poor choices.
We are in unprecedented territory, and it will require unprecedented solutions to redeem this nation in the eyes of its citizens, the world, and history. We cannot fall back on the proven failed past Democratic strategies of politeness and scolding and expect MAGAs to suddenly become moral. They are ignorant and anti-intellectual. Scolding them like the terrible children they surely were, and still are, isn't going to change them.
It is imperative that the Democratic Party shift their position, and see MAGA as the proven serious National Security Threat that they genuinely are, and it's leadership and much of its elected following as Domestic Terrorists, and deal with them as such.
In the future, we cannot be polite or fair to these people. They are LITERALLY mind-bogglingly corrupt, traitors, racists, and pedophiles, and we have no obligation to treat them politely at all. We see how they treat those that they hate, and most of those people have done nothing at all. MAGA has EARNED far harsher treatment.
They know it, too. We don't have to play dirty, like they do, we just have to play Hard Ball, and mercilessly charge them with every CRIME. It isn't about being MAGA, it's about launching and participating in an Insurrection. It's about stealing hundreds of Classified documents. It's about taking bribes. It's about using pardons to commit obstruction of justice, etc. None of it is political, it is all criminal, and they should be tried, prosecuted, and sentenced for those crimes. They understand that what they've done should be met with long prison sentences, and in some case capital punishment. They would enthusiastically, gleefully do it to any of us, and we don't even deserve it. They do.
Time to play Hard Ball.