MeidasTouch - Trump's Scandals Have No Precedent

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In just the past couple of weeks, there have been three separate instances of such unfathomable corruption that any other normal presidency wouldn’t have survived a single one of them. Let alone all three.

Confirmed insider trading — not by someone in the administration, but by the sitting president of the United States. A literal slush fund to help criminals who are allied with the administration. And a finance scheme so monumental it has the potential to set up Donald Trump and his family as one of the wealthiest dynasties in the world.

The level of corruption on display right now is so profound that historians will spend decades writing books about this period. The problem is we’re living in it in real time, which means we’ve lost our sense of scale. Thus, I think it’s helpful to remind ourselves what a real scandal looks like. What it used to take to bring down an administration. And how far we have fallen from that standard.

Teapot Dome

It’s the 1920s. Warren G. Harding is president and is about to be hit by a scandal so significant that for the better part of a century it was considered the single greatest act of government corruption in American history. Here’s how it went down.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trumps-scandals-have-no-precedent

[Warpy]

1. Fascist Playbook!

You can do whatever you want to as long as you do it quickly enough because it takes legislatures and courts so long to address the problem and by the time that they do, the damage is done.

Since fascist leaders always seem to evade prison (Fatso will play the dementia card and succeed because duh), we've usually been able to convict and jail enough of their enablers to cool off the anti government frenzy for a few decades and maybe that's the best we can hope for. We tend to be reactive, not proactive.

This administration has been so egregious in its overreach that we do have a chance of getting legislation to define and limit the power of the executive to govern by fiat, such legislation rising to the constitutional amendment level should the corrupt Roberts court squawk too much about it.