My wife is out of town, so last night I killed time by watching an old Jack Ryan thriller. I think it was titled "Clear and Present Danger." In it our hero (Harrison Ford) discovers that the President and his security advisor have committed treason to gain a domestic political advantage. (The characters were probably based on Nixon and Kissinger, who committed treason with the Vietnamese to gain a domestic political advantage.) The movie ends with a triumphant Jack Ryan testifying before a senate oversight committee.
Jack Ryan never met Moscow Mitch.
tRump has committed ten times the crimes of Nixon. And you will note that Kissinger went unpunished and that a Republican hack gave Nixon a full pardon.
Today's senate would not allow Jack Ryan to testify. The Supreme Court would happily reinterpret laws to legitimize any treasonous act the President committed Nancy Pelosi would continue to shrink from action, seeking an imaginary centrist advantage for her semi-Democratic members of congress.
One party has rotted into a hollow crumbling shell; the other party is Republican. The question is: Will young people be able to rebuild our bent institutions?
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