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“We shouldn’t hold politicians accountable for their crimes because their supporters won’t like it” is one of the weirder takes I’ve seen in this thread. Obviou

“We shouldn’t hold politicians accountable for their crimes because their supporters won’t like it” is one of the weirder takes I’ve seen in this thread. Obviously someone’s followers won’t like seeing their hero held accountable for crimes, but having a lot of followers shouldn’t make someone immune from consequences for their crimes. That’s one hell of a slippery slope. > Now if you go ahead and jail the populist leader, you are going even closer to complete political fracture especially after a good chunk of the population believes the election was stolen from him. If you think this will convince any Trump supporters they're wrong (lol), I have a pipe dream to sell you This post has a high density of non sequiturs. The purpose of the indictment wasn’t to convince Trump voters that the election wasn’t stolen. It’s unrelated to basically anything you wrote about. It’s about enforcing laws and following up on crimes. Also, you seem to have missed Trump’s recent decline in popularity. He hasn’t been very popular for a while now, outside of the staunch core supporters. Even Fox News has started moving on and isn’t afraid to criticize him any more.

notch898a 4y ago
I love seeing politicians piss in their pants as much as the next guy. Hopefully the charges aren't politically motivated, but if they are that's where I think things get dicey. The law being applied more strongly and more rigorously if you are a political enemy is both difficult to prove and insidious, and it undermines the democratic process. I have no idea if this is the case with trump, or the prosecution is just a coincidence. You see this applied elsewhere... for instance police may target black areas. Sure the black people they arrest may actually be committing crime and the arrests may be valid, while still achieving an insidious quality of policing.
vl 4y ago
> “We shouldn’t hold politicians accountable for their crimes because their supporters won’t like it” This is not the point OP is making. The point is that there is deep divide, and this is populist move from once side trying to remove one of the contenders from the race (ironically, dems would be better off if they would allow Trump to run since then they are likelier to win). This move is extremely dangerous since it is directed on ex-president. If presidents know that once they will leave office others side would come for their head, guess what, they would not leave office. Dictatorship, police state, potential civil war, and risk it for what? For getting cheap brownie points agains washed-out politician?
- watwut 4y ago
  Not prosecuting Trump would be populist choice to appease his voters. Also, I really dont think that "presidents should be entitled to commit any crime, because no one can prosecute them" is a good legal system to have. That would attract even more criminals to high politics, because it would make them immune to crimes.

notch898a 4y ago

I love seeing politicians piss in their pants as much as the next guy. Hopefully the charges aren't politically motivated, but if they are that's where I think things get dicey. The law being applied more strongly and more rigorously if you are a political enemy is both difficult to prove and insidious, and it undermines the democratic process. I have no idea if this is the case with trump, or the prosecution is just a coincidence. You see this applied elsewhere... for instance police may target black areas. Sure the black people they arrest may actually be committing crime and the arrests may be valid, while still achieving an insidious quality of policing.

vl 4y ago

> “We shouldn’t hold politicians accountable for their crimes because their supporters won’t like it” This is not the point OP is making. The point is that there is deep divide, and this is populist move from once side trying to remove one of the contenders from the race (ironically, dems would be better off if they would allow Trump to run since then they are likelier to win). This move is extremely dangerous since it is directed on ex-president. If presidents know that once they will leave office others side would come for their head, guess what, they would not leave office. Dictatorship, police state, potential civil war, and risk it for what? For getting cheap brownie points agains washed-out politician?

watwut 4y ago
Not prosecuting Trump would be populist choice to appease his voters. Also, I really dont think that "presidents should be entitled to commit any crime, because no one can prosecute them" is a good legal system to have. That would attract even more criminals to high politics, because it would make them immune to crimes.