The most important thing is not that Donald Trump is found guilty.

[panfluteman]

12. It Seems that Our Whole Justice System Has a Really Bad Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Singlehandedly, this pinche cabron Donald Trump has severely warped, twisted and skewed our entire justice system to suit his needs, and whims. And in doing this, Trump seems to have been the very astute student of the most crooked and corrupt mob lawyer of them all, Roy Cohn, who appears to have taught him very well. You may praise the rule of law and offer self assuring homilies to it when Judge Merchan scores a very partial or temporary victory against the Orange Trumpster, but we have a long, long way to go before the battle against the most serious threat to our democracy since the Civil War is finally won, and the Trump threat is totally vanquished and eliminated. We pat ourselves on the back, praising the rule of law when, by all impartial and objective standards, our system of justice has fallen a long, long way since Donald Trump first came down the escalator that fateful day.

Donald Trump is the single greatest threat to our democratic republic since the Civil War. What tore the country asunder in the Civil War was the institution of slavery, but that was a whole institution, and not just one man. OK - you can rightly say that Trump couldn't do it without his Republican sycophants and enablers but still, Donald Trump, just one man, spearheaded it all.

Please forgive me for being so cynical and pessimistic here, but with my Scorpio Ascendant, that's just the way I am.