The Next Target After Trump Is … You, by John Zmirak

The John Zmirak, The Stream, August 28, 2023

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”

What will it mean if Donald Trump gets sentenced to prison? Or if he is even declared ineligible for office, as some lawyers linked to the conservative Federalist Society are trying (for murky reasons) to prove?

Let’s try to step back and think about these things in a coolly disinterested fashion, like Mr. Spock on Star Trek. Or like some foreign historian looking back at our present history from the distance of 500 years.

With Donald Trump’s mugshot out there floating, and his bitter enemies gloating, I’m not sure that Vulcan detachment is possible at the moment. For the moment, I don’t think it’s crucial or even possible to convince two groups of people to adopt this detached perspective: …

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