• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well that’s just idiotic grandstanding if true, because Trump’s plays out the steps EXACTLY on how to catch a RICO charge. It’s like a ‘Criminal Racketeering and Conspiracy to commit 100 Kinds of Fraud: For Dummies’ book.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not ‘just’ idiotic grandstanding, it’s also how Republicans are intentionally eroding the power of our institutions.

      Any tool that is brought to bear against them, they’ll try to undermine and abuse so it’s less effective for anything. They want it to look like RICO is just a partisan tool to go after your enemies. That makes democrats look as petty as them - if you ignore reality.

      One of the ways you can tell Republicans are actively trying to destroy our democracy is the way the prefer political strategies that do as much institutional damage as possible.