Can’t happen, won’t happen … did happen!
A grand jury upholds the rule of law There is a long history in this country of folks saying one thing and doing another. From the man who wrote “All men are created equal” owning 600 people to professed Christians seething with intolerance, betrayal of humanity has been the id battling America’s superego for 247 years.
The latest example is Donald Trump. Using what conservative columnist George Will once called feral cunning, Trump has played our lowest impulses like a virtuoso.
Fortunately, American history also includes freedom struggles and course corrections. On March 30, Trump, whose privilege and brazenness long permitted him to flout the law without consequence, finally experienced what many people feared would never happen: a criminal indictment.
It surprised no one when the GOP, which has long portrayed itself as the law and order party, circled the wagons around the former president.
