Supreme Court Hearing on Grump's Criminal Immunity

About SCOTUS hearing Dump's ridiculous immunity claims for his failed coup and various other schemes to cheat our election system. If not a constitutional crisis, what could possibly be? He tried to violently overthrow the government. We all saw it. Repuglicans, in and out of office, would rather own the libs and hand the country over to this Reality TV dictator, financial fraudster and violent fascist than protect the constitution or American democracy or the rule of law or any of that patriotic bs. Why? Because many in congress and government (scotus, secret service, etc) are complicit in his crimes and probably some because they're afraid, not unreasonably, of MAGA's fascist violence, and when you get down to it there are undoubtably lots of Trumpers who will never face the humiliation of admitting they were wrong about the guy. 

Just for all the MAGA death threats against public officials, election workers, and members of the legal system alone the electorate ought to totally reject Cheetolini at the ballot box in November as a violent demagogue and not someone you'd buy a used car from let alone want running the country. Enough, already.  

People complain that we don't have a moderate center in politics anymore. What held that center together more or less forever was one issue in American politics: national security, matters of national self-determination, or opposition to foreign influence in our elections. Sure, Kissinger sabotaged a peace deal with Vietnam in the run-up to the 1968 election, and Reagan blocked the release of American hostages from Iran before 1980; both Republican and treasonous and covered up. So Trump didn't invent conservative corruption but come on he is vying for all-time most corrupt political figure in American history: election interference (aka, cheating), treason, massive amounts of financial fraud, a failed coup attempt, abusing immigrants and BIPOC Americans, Impeached twice (should have been three times), and there is a serious chance he's dealt top secret national security documents and information to Putin and the Saudis, maybe more. In general, Grump pals with the worst murderous tyrants around the world and gets hostile with NATO and our closest allies. And, by the way, turning against the world will not make us safer or richer; it'll make us poorer and more vulnerable to foreign threats. Trump and MAGA collude with Russia to attack our elections and Americans in the base wear t-shirts that say, "Better Russia than the Democrats." This is one big reason there is no moderate center in American politics anymore. Because one of the major parties, Republicans, the GOP, abandoned what bonds the moderate center, our shared values concerning American independence, and have done so for Trump and Putin and the like. Not the best but the absolute worst petty bigot dictators. 

That's why we no longer have a moderate center in our politics. Not because of Antifa, immigrants, progressives, or any radical left blamed by conservative media and melanin challenged Americans humiliating and embarrassing their own history, again. 

Anyway, whenever the news is so upside-down stupid and wrong I'm ranting and sputtering like this, too often in the Dump era, I turn to Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo for perspective. He's talked me off the is-this-fascist-America-takeover-thing-really-happening ledge, so to speak, many times:

Peering Into The Corrupt Court's Pretensions and Corruption