The other night, my boys and I went to see the new Spiderman movie. It is, hands down, one the best Marvel movies and animated movies of all time. My old assed ears couldn't make out a third of the dialogue, but even so it was funny, moving and visionary. In case you don't know anything about Across the Spiderverse, it posits that there are multiple universes - each with their own Spiderman. This is a theme being used in other Marvel movies, as they pivot away from the Avengers/Thanos plot. Anyway, the lead Spiderman in these two animated films is Miles Morales, a Puerto Rican Spiderman.
I bet you can guess what half of the reviews panning the film focus on.
Was it wokeness and DEI? Silly rabbit, of course it was. (My favorite are the one star reviews calling it one of the best films ever, because the reviewer doesn't know how the star system works.) The fact that Miles is NOT Peter Parker is a really important plot point, not tokenism. However, you can't shake the absolute belief that Hollywood is out to make your kids gay and white people hate themselves. No amount of contrary evidence can shake that belief.
Which brings me to the Trump indictment. Now, I must allow that I'm reading sources who are center and left, and they are pretty unanimous that the details in the indictment are incredibly, incredibly damning. Given that the evidence is in the indictment of Trump admitting the documents were still classified, directing people to hide them from the government and storing them in appalling loose circumstances...how is he not guilty?
However, the Right has its lens through which nothing but the Pure And White-Sorry-Right Belief may shine. Trump is a guy who has largely escaped legal accountability his whole life by bullying people he has defrauded and paying fines to lesser charges. Now - under the klieg lights of being president - all of his petty criminality is on display. For people objectively looking at this indictment, it is baffling why he is not already behind bars.
Honest to God, they executed the Rosenbergs for less.
However, for tens of millions of Americans - bunkered from reality behind the non-stop bullshit of Fox and Fiends - Trump is somehow a victim. All of the evidence, all of the documentation, all of his own words...nothing will shake this a priori conviction.
In an ideal world, all those who ran out to defend Trump at all the various stages of this moment of legal accountability would sit there ashamed and abashed. They would plead mea culpa. Hell, even most of the people running against him in the Republican primary won't call him out.
We are likely due more indictments in Georgia and in DC for trying to overturn the election. There will be audio recordings of Trump doing crimes and it will not matter.
The Republican Party needs to be razed to ground and the ashes scattered.
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