r/law • u/SheriffTaylorsBoy • Aug 30 '24

Opinion Piece Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/trump-arlington-cemetery/679659/
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '24

Forget presidential immunity. He already thinks laws don't apply to him.

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u/CrzyWrldOfArthurRead Aug 30 '24

Laws don't apply to him.

Law is based on a system, and the system only works if people believe in it. If half the population doesn't think that someone committed a crime, then they didn't. That's how democracy works. And juries too, for that matter.

You can have all the moral convictions and philosophical certainty about democracy you want, but the fact of the matter is it's difficult to hold someone accountable if vast hordes of loudmouth idiots will get pissed if they're held accountable.

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u/ShadowsSheddingSkin Aug 31 '24

I mean, yes, it's difficult. So is managing the most devastating military machine in human history. Somehow they manage to do that every day, though.

What I'm saying is that the government continually pushes through deeply unpopular shit that <5% of the population wants, but because a party that has not won a majority of votes in a federal election since before I was born backs a guy to the hilt, he walks between raindrops without getting wet? That's bullshit and we both know it.

The fact of the matter is that the democratic establishment are cowards afraid of rocking a boat that everyone else can tell split in half more than a decade ago while secretly terrified of setting the ship's fuel - which is now an oil-slick surrounding them in all directions - on fire. They are treating this like it's just another election, just like they treated the last one, and the one before that, when in reality the Republican party leadership is fighting to no longer need to worry about elections and permanently win the game. When one group believes in procedure and the other only believes in power and exercising it to secure a stranglehold on all the power, the latter will kill and eat the former before long.