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In reply to the discussion: Any Garland Defenders Watching Rachel [View all]Fiendish Thingy
(19,023 posts)Over and Over and Over again.
But they were thwarted by the kind of due process hundreds of millions in legal fees and being a former president making claims of Executive Privilege can buy, thwarted by Roberts and the MAGA court, and ultimately, by the voters.
Garland isnt the villain of this story.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219707013
While Im not that surprised at threads scapegoating Garland (low hanging fruit), I continue to be astonished at the almost complete absence of threads taking Roberts and the Trump SCOTUS to task. Aside from the initial reaction to the immunity ruling, there has been none.
Until/unless we approach something resembling a shared sense of reality, the simplistic circular firing squad will continue, and nothing will be learned from the 2024 election to prepare us for the challenges ahead because, hey, its all Milquetoast Merricks fault, so what can you do?