The exhausting view of this bizarre week – with the first GOP presidential primary debate one day, followed by the fourth arrest this year of the former president the next – is that everyone should prepare for so much more of this uniquely American and continuously unbelievable political spectacle.
It will be impossible to look away. The atmospherics are distracting Former President Donald Trump’s stone-faced mug shot and the televised motorcade of his trip to court painted his arrest Thursday at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta with a reality TV theatricality. They also drove home that Trump, like every other American, must ultimately submit to the law – in this case, in relation to charges against him for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The deeper questions are essential The mug shot is a cover image for the four trials, played out in courtrooms up and down the East Coast, which will see Trump tried for: This is ugly, but the alternative is worse If the world is indeed locked in a struggle between democracies and autocracies, as Biden often asserts, then it is hard not to compare Trump’s coming trials and the coming American election with the other most sensational worldwide story of the week: Unlike in Russia, where the...
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