On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is it to you that Trump is eventually jailed for his crimes?

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129. Agree, we know them now. Just look at the enormous backlash

from SCOTUS legalizing gay marriage by judicial fiat. Even the many conservatives who supported gay rights were enraged at having that decision imposed on their states, contributing to their scorched-earth culture warring.

Someday, though, there might well be a "DUI effect" on society, including the right, of criminalizing political lawbreaking. Once we got that far.

That is, when MADD et al succeeded in getting the act of DUI itself criminalized, not just running someone down, the previously largely permissive attitude of society swung 180 degrees. DUI was now something criminals did.

Conservatives tend to be notoriously intolerant of those who get in trouble with the authorities anyway, so if we could get to the point where society expected criminal politicians to be prosecuted and incarcerated, I think it would do us the same world of good. And the Trump era should provide others in many governments to help reshape attitudes with.

I do wonder how attitudes toward Trump himself will change with his legal problems and other unflattering behaviors as a civilian. Probably his current behaviors aren't doing him any good with his supporters. There should be real utility in state governments going after him for financial and other non-political crimes, again working on that gut-level conservative bias that people who get in trouble with the law must be guilty and need to be punished.