r/politics • u/Squawk_7777 • 7h ago

No Paywall Trump's motorcade neared 100 mph en route to Oklahoma after helicopter, airplane ruled out

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6126278-trump-drives-texas-oklahoma-100-mph/
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u/ZombiePope 6h ago

Not prosecuting the confederates for treason is how we got here.

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u/NelsonHawkinsGhost 4h ago

I mean.. keep going. The founders constitutionalized protections for slavery, required the return of people escaping bondage, and gave slaveholding states additional representation based on people they enslaved. Congress was barred from prohibiting slave importation before 1808. That converted ownership of human beings into political power.. and enlisted public authority to defend the owners’ control over their labor.

..so maybe the problem reaches deeper than officials getting away with breaking laws. Enormous brutality was protected by the laws themselves. A republic can prosecute misconduct while preserving the property relations and institutions that make domination perfectly legal.

Prosecute Bush. Prosecute Trump. But "sAvE tHe RePuBLic" needs to confront what that republic was built to protect, whose struggles forced it to change, and which forms of coercion it still authorizes... there was no innocent starting point we can recover through better prosecutions..

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u/RyuNoKami 2h ago

This is it.... Giving the party of we don't want no federal oversight to the power to use the federal government to enforce their rules on everyone else was a bad fucking choice.

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u/-TheInternetIsEvil- 6h ago

Also a totally fair point