Accountability. It’s a word you hear a lot these days, often uttered alongside the catchphrase “no one is above the law.” That’s about as absurd as saying “all men are created equal” in a society that creates — and amplifies — inherent advantages based on skin color, inherited wealth, and genetic predispositions. Catchphrases have a way of sounding good on paper but being nearly worthless when the rubber meets the road.
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Even our most basic protections are limited based on content and intent. You have a First Amendment right to free speech, but that doesn’t mean you can defame someone or yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater. … It seems absurd that the pardon power, which is much less fundamental to a democratic society than free speech… should enjoy greater protections from content-based limits than any other right enshrined in the Constitution.
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You might say it’s a war between Republicans and Democrats, or conservatives and liberals, and in large measure, that’s true. But at the heart of it, it’s a war between reality and denial. Nearly half the country has been sold a bill of goods by Donald Trump and his cronies. But they don’t want to admit they’ve been swindled — because it would involve admitting they’re the worst thing in Trumpworld: losers and suckers.
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