'Maybe the Schadenfreude of those tweeting celebratory memes under hashtags like indictmentday is earned, or maybe the spectacle of his arraignment was a hollow display, disconnected from the harm inflicted by this man and his cronies.' rtraister writes
crucial, her prospects urgent. Trump was both my nightmare and my waking misery — a buffoon, yes, but one who could leverage the nation’s oldest and cruelest resentments about race and gender into a suffocating grip on its courts and democratic systems.
After he won the election, I came to see the fixation on Trump as a distraction from the significance and impact of his presidency. In making him a singular fixture at the center of a nonstop carnival, in regarding him as a sui generis horror who might be impeached or prosecuted, but failing to treat him as an embodiment of the broader grotesqueries of the hard right’s drive to power, we were failing the country, each other, and the next generation.
The punitive furies Trump unleashed are ongoing. The institutional, anti-democratic breakdown that ushered in his rise — particularly, the capitulation of the Republican Party to its basest elements and a minority stranglehold — has only gathered pace. Trump was arrested, but that will have no impact on those being denied gender-affirming and reproductive-health care or the children and teachers who risk getting shot at schools.
I realize that lots of people who are celebrating Trump’s indictment believe that it is possible to have both feelings at once: pleasure at justice being served and trepidation that we remain in crisis. I understand the argument that those who have done wrong must be held accountable. But this isn’t accountability for any of what Trump or his party really did, and continue to do, to this country.
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