Remember That Time Tried To End American Democracy?

 Apparently the media doesn't care, because there's another missing white girl.

Events, however, are beginning to accelerate. We have the leaks from Bob Woodward's book, including the Eastman Memo. By any reasonable standards, the disclosure of this memo, which lays out how Pence could basically end elective democracy in America, should be the leading news story in every newspaper in the country. Eastman should be arrested, or at least dragged before the Committee (I presume he will be).

The House Select Committee has subpoenaed Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino and Kash Patel. These three stooges will invoke executive privilege, but they will not be supported by the existing White House. Technically, this should place them in contempt of Congress. I would love to see them placed in jail for this. It's not Bob Barr running the DOJ, but Merrick Garland - of all people - still seems to think that this is 1990 and we can all just defer to existing norms.

Like many, I've been impatient for perp walks beyond the cluelessly moronic MAGAts who have been arrested for storming the Capitol. It's not OK for these marginal and marginalized bumpkins to bear the consequences of Trump and his lackeys' attempts to end American Democracy.

I also realize that indicting Trump is unprecedented in American history. If you're going to do this, how do you find an impartial jury? Maybe it would be better to just get him on tax fraud...but that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. 

If you're going to bring a case against Trump, you'd better have all the t's crossed and all the i's dotted. I get that. And ideally, the trial of Donald Trump and Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy and Devin Nunes and Lauren Boebert and - how the hell is he not already in jail - Matt Gaetz will be the dominant story from December through next fall, after Democrats find some way to pass their legislative agenda this fall.

I get that justice grinds slow, but we've been waiting for four years for Trump to face justice for his many crimes before and after he claimed the presidency.

Throw us a bone.