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Friday, December 11, 2020 5:57 PM

How Biden Should Investigate Trump

The misdeeds and destructive acts are legion. The new president should focus on these three.

The third investigation (and third commission) would probe the Trump administration’s attacks on democracy itself. American democracy depends on rules, and it depends on norms. The rules largely involve setting the balance between majority power and minority rights. The norms involve the informal cushioning that keeps disagreements from becoming civil wars. There is no law spelling out the duty of the loser of an election to concede graciously to the winner. But that is what Richard Nixon did after his hair’s-breadth loss to John F. Kennedy in 1960, and what Al Gore did after his even narrower (and more controversial) loss to George W. Bush in 2000. Democracy depends on the “consent of the losers,” as political scientists have put it.

Over the past generation, rules and norms have eroded. There is a reason books on guarding against autocracy—for instance, On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder, and Twilight of Democracy, by Anne Applebaum—have become popular. The erosion was transformed into deliberate policy during the Trump years. Even before he was installed in office, and with no evidence, Trump called into question the popular vote in the 2016 election, alleging that millions of ballots had been cast fraudulently. Trump created a task force to look into the matter, which generated headlines (but quietly disbanded when it found no fraud). Elections are in the hands of the individual states. Now emboldened, many state legislatures have used fraud as an excuse to erect new barriers to voting by the poor, by members of minority groups, and by immigrants—reversing the gains of half a century. When the pandemic hit, prompting a shift away from voting in person, the Trump administration falsely equated mail-in ballots with fraudulent votes. When Biden won a decisive victory in both the popular vote and the Electoral College, the president refused to concede and launched a war of attrition against the legitimacy of the electoral process itself.

An investigation of America’s democratic process must start by decisively separating truth from lies. It must document the assault on voting rights and the cynical distortions of gerrymandering. It must reckon with the most lethal form of domestic terrorism in recent years, that from armed white supremacists. It must also explain what needs to be done to secure elections against interference by Russia and other foreign powers—a threat confirmed by all of the nation’s intelligence agencies, but one whose reality and significance were questioned by Trump. Finally, it must address how to rekindle a spirit of grassroots engagement among ordinary citizens. An excellent place to start is a recent report from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences called “Our Common Purpose.”

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, December 11, 2020 6:32 PM

Nope.

Democrats stole the election. They have no moral high ground here.

Time for everybody to just go on with their lives and deal with it. And watch as Democrats start to eat each other after Trump leaves.





Oh.. and as for terrorism, funny there's no mention of black maskers tearing and burning everything down.


What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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THG

Friday, December 11, 2020 7:31 PM

First, no pardon. Second, Biden doesn't touch the investigation. He needs to be completely hands off. He can’t even ask who he chooses to run the DOJ what his intentions are regarding Trump. He should pick someone who he believes would go after Trump, because it’s necessary. It starts when Trump pardons himself. That needs to be challenged on its legality. That definitely opens the door the widest to go after him in a way that can be described as nonpolitical.

All actions must be based on the evidence and not politics, but let’s hope whoever winds up heading the FBI goes after him as well. The message needs to be that the type of corrupt and retaliatory behavior displayed by Trump, if repeated by a future president, will have consequences. And changes need to be made, protections put in place, to block future presidents from being able to corrupt the system as easily as Trump did. We've now learned the republicans cannot be counted on to do the right thing.

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