Trump has us living in Scooby-Doo’s America
By the time you re seven years old you know how it s going to go A crime is being committed The crack organization is on the development Cel animation artifacts line the next door to open in an endless funhouse chase Pretty Mary Sunlight she s alright with me Through a series of semi-smart deductions and bumbling failures Mystery Incorporated bags the baddie and pulls off their ghoul mask to reveal certain schmuck frequently a real estate developer Notably you almost never see them go to jail Living through Donald Trump s second term is a bit like catching an afternoon block of Hanna-Barbera Each day we re shown a more cartoonish and evil crime The perpetrators are as brazen as their guilt is obvious Democrats and institutionalists hem and haw Republicans deflect and deny until the smoking gun is produced Everybody moves on and we start back at one Cue the bats Related SCOTUS backs executive lawlessness The Jeffrey Epstein ruckus has felt different if only because the GOP has been forced to acknowledge it Driven mad by the gh-gh-gh- ghost of the late sex trafficker Trump has lost a bit of his unflappable nature He hasn t been able to move on to the next scheme For a dissembler and con man like Trump stopping must feel like death something that never made it into the crime-ridden but groovy worlds of Scooby-Doo Jabberjaw or Speed Buggy Start your day with essential news from Salon Sign up for our free morning newsletter Crash Lesson That s just our suspension of disbelief though In the same way we buy a skull-faced astronaut haunting an airfield we have to believe there are consequences for actions in a country with laws We live in a world where the Paradise and Panama Papers are publicly available We live in a country where hundreds of people who stormed the Capitol attempting to steal an electoral process by force were all pardoned The highest arbiter of what is just and lawful gave the president a free pass to do crimes The real estate scams continue and are handsomely rewarded The sheriffs look the other way Outside of ICE agents the majority of people participating in this administration s rampant lawlessness are unmasked The only cure left is to break the repetition of politics as usual and level actual consequences for the people who abet Trump s crimes We re ready we re willing and we can t go back to the van until we see the villains behind bars Read more about this topic Supreme Court permits Trump s indefensible Department of Training purge It s time to fight the lawless Supreme Court before Donald Trump makes it worse Trump s open defiance of the law leaves no room for Republican redemption The post Trump has us living in Scooby-Doo s America appeared first on Salon com
