Donald Trump’s threat to imprison Hillary Clinton is a threat to democracy

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7. BushII was not prosecuted

by his successor for lying and suborning lies from the intelligence community about "weapons of mass destruction in Iraq", which caused thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths.

But tRump is going to jail Hillary Clinton because of "her situation" (he's not even articulate enough to actually make the case). Fascism, pure and simple. An object lesson of how a Hitler could come to power in a civilized country like Germany. We are but a few percentage points from going down the same road.

We were "exceptional" as long as two great oceans protected us from the rest of the world. Once that protection was lost, it's clear that we're just the same as the rest of humankind.

I'm going back to bed now, cynical about my country for the first time in my nearly three-quarters of a century of life.