“When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.” Is there a bit large enough to fit into the mouths of the former president and his cult following? Centrist Democrats quashed those decrying “defund the police” in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police officers. Community policing and economic opportunity is the medicine required to heal the wounds created by years of depletion of hope and respect for those living in metropolitan, and rural areas alike. Investment, not divestment is the key.
Will the GOP heed the same advice in their calls for action to “destroy the FBI?” The talking points have filtered down at lightning speed from Kevin McCarthy to Trump’s NH motormouth muse, Karoline Leavitt. “Weaponization of the Justice Department” is the butt end of the joke played upon the American people by a group of leaders who confirmed Attorney General Merrick Garland, in bipartisan fashion, and the appointment of FBI Director Christopher Wray, by none other than Donald J. Trump. The same people who weaponized Trump followers through social media preceding the insurrection, based on lies, and who attempted to weaponize the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security and the Pentagon, with Trump loyalists in support of a coup to hold power. Power is the end game and as famously said, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Hypocrisy reigns king for those worshipping the traitorous Trump.
Elizabeth Ruediger
Dummer