Trump punishment fantasies shouldn’t be motivated by bloodlust. I mean, we don’t want to be like the “ReAwaken America” crowd — right?
Writing in The New Republic, Katherine Stewart, an author and journalist covering the religious right, describes what she saw at a recent event in Clay Clark‘s ReAwaken America Tour.
“The Las Vegas conference was the third such event I attended in person, and it was by a significant measure the most bloodthirsty. The rhetoric coming from the podium was even more violent than the slogans on the T-shirts.
“’When [Anthony Fauci] is convicted after a short and fast but thorough trial, he will hang from a length of thick rope,’ said the far-right personality Stew Peters. ‘When [Hunter Biden] is convicted … he will get … Death!’ The audience of several thousand roared their approval.”
It’s the indictments that have them fired up, Stewart thinks. They love the indictments. It gives them the only excuse they seem to need that the monsters really are coming for them.
I don’t want Trump to die writhing in anguish. I’d much rather see him humiliated. I do want him to suffer from the embarassment, and feel sure he would suffer, as long as he’s given no way to slither out of it — no control whatsoever over the administration of a fanciful sentence. The lack of control alone would be delicious to see.
And let’s do make it fun, whimsical. Fantasy football leagues mete out nutty, usually sophomoric, public punishments. Why not make Trump’s sentence (or sentences?!) as unprecedented as his crimes?
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