Wednesday, February 19, 2020

The Heir gets to do some followup on this whole election thing.  I the Mentor guess we kind of lousily phrased what we previously said, though that's because it took a while for certain thoughts to become more cohesive and concrete.  It's still clear to the Heir that the progressives want the Resistance to believe that the election is some sort of Court Of Public Opinion trial on Trump, but elections have generally never been about a referendum on a candidate's moral or just/legal state.  Fun Loving Chief was paraphrased to have said, "It's the economy, stupid," so that's the prism through which the Heir's looking at the election.  It's going to be more about whether Trump ever took adequate action on the prices of prescription drugs, and less about how he's a criminal who models very badly for our young people.  It also kind of hearkens back to yet another paraphrase attributed to Benjamin Franklin: You can't make a popular appeal to general values and concepts as much as an appeal to self-interest.  Whether we like it or not, that's the way it is, so the Heir's thinking it's not appropriate for the Insurgent News Network to portray the election as a trial on Trump.  But he's seeing video titles such as "The only that will stop Trump is us," which he sees as misleading because it's a Rorschach test.  Everyone will see into the title what they'll subjectively see, and it's the Insurgent Network disingenuously expecting the Resistance to somehow turn the election into a trial on Trump through this Rorschach test.  (For one thing, it allows the Insurgent Network to make hay out of election gossip, e.g., Bloomberg and Bernie).  As a result, the Heir asks the Resistance to Resist this temptation, and focus more on outstanding criminal charges and civil suits Trump will face *after* office.  Now here's the thing.  It seems likely that Trump will lose, which will have the effect of moving up those actual reckonings till less than a year from now.  But the Heir also asks the Resistance to have a Plan B in place in case that doesn't happen, and there are any number of strategies to consider that the Heir wants to think more about before proposing what he thinks may be the best courses of action.  It would be awesome to him if up until the election the Insurgent Network has intrepid legals like Maya Wiley and Chuck Rosenberg among others to explain the details of the possibilities so the Heir knows what he's getting into before getting me the Mentor to cite such ideas here on the shares base.

"Resistance, don't put all your law-and-justice eggs into the one basket that is the election.  Keep focusing on the legal nuts and bolts of an actual justice on Trump."

No comments: