Beyond Donald J. Trump...and the one-way ratchet of executive authority.
Beyond Trump? How About Now?
About: Charlie Savage’s Piece
Trump committed crimes, claimed immunity and somehow, (well, we know how) managed to have the case brought to the highest bench which he somehow (well, we should know how) for his purposes populated with the sufficient quotient of collusive fellow criminals.
It's understandable that the first person to be cited in scenarios of Presidential criminality "going forward" is the (former) President who indeed created the abject issue.
But he's NOT the President. Joe Biden is the one whom some of us are delightfully, if perhaps naively, wondering if and when might consider exploiting this opportunity laid at his stumbling feet. The question is: Can he now collude with the Justice Dept (something for which he's heretofore been groundlessly accused in MAGA messaging) and get on the good foot (so to speak, perhaps not so good) and remove his no longer statutorily required gloves? How about six new additional SC justices, for instance? Repeal Citizens United? Revisit Electoral College system. Filibuster? Term limits? Civil/Civic Rights guarantees? In other words, ALL the stuff the authoritarians plan to topple in THEIR favor.
Whichever the escalated bestowed Presidential powers, is there any reason for them not to be wielded now? As so many other issues waiting to be addressed until the "saving" of our Democracy, why not address what's improvable now and pave over culpability with reforms to this garbage nefariousness later.
Trump isn't President. Joe Biden is. Based on the narrative presented in the media, one would think Joe was an outlier wanna-be candidate. It's unnerving.