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We Are Not Getting Out of This In One Piece
David Remnick’s opening paragraph from “The New Trump Indictment and the Reckoning Ahead,” (August 1, 2023, The New Yorker) asks a chilling question:
“To read the stark criminal indictment, returned by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, charging Donald Trump with conspiring to steal the 2020 Presidential election is to realize more deeply than before that the country is headed for a great reckoning — in the courts and at the ballot box. It suggests a question that cannot be escaped: Will the American electorate show itself capable of overlooking a conspiracy to undermine democratic rule and return the chief conspirator to power?”
But aren’t Republicans saying eerily similar things about Democrats?
Just for a minute, stand in the shoes of someone who genuinely believes that a ‘deep state’ exists — that Democrats have a secret society that sells children for sex through a pizzeria in Washington, D. C., or that drinks their blood for their daily adrenochrome fix. It might sound ridiculous to you, but let’s just say you believed it, and were as horrified as you should be. Wouldn’t the January 6th insurrection justify a patriotic rage that might even have seemed long overdue?
