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In reply to the discussion: Post Trump, there must be prosecutions [View all]JHB
(38,242 posts)42. Convince me they'll cooperate, and I'll consider it.
To have a truth and reconciliation commission worth the name, you need to have people willing to tell the truth and are willing to reconcile.
Do you know when that was the case in successful T&R commissions? When the people who had done terrible things were sweating bullets about the alternatives. That's not going to happen here until people who have committed criminal acts go to jail for a long time.
Probably a lot of them. Certainly enough to penetrate the reflex the Republicans have developed to just brazen it out until the fuss dies down then go back to doing the same things or worse.
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No, that is what emboldened republicans, that GW Bush and Chaney got away with murder
Perseus
Feb 2020
#16
The next president must take the bleach to Trump's administration or its stain will never go away.
Efilroft Sul
Feb 2020
#8
Like Klobucher said, I think it was her, she will walk into the oval office and spray it with clorox
Perseus
Feb 2020
#19
The republicans have worked too hard to steal this country to let some
johnthewoodworker
Feb 2020
#10
Absolutely! Tired of these shits getting away with it and coming back worse.
Hermit-The-Prog
Feb 2020
#26
Agree, we need to focus heavily on the people getting out to vote against..
Guilded Lilly
Feb 2020
#30
Absolutely must be prosecutions for deterrence effect if nothing else. tRump is undettered now. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2020
#38
If there are none, then the party is continuing to do what got us here to start with.
not_the_one
Feb 2020
#43
Bu$h & co. started a war with fake WMD'S and paid no price...It can't happen again.
spanone
Feb 2020
#57