re: #265 Targetpractice

Like so many authoritarian states, what you have is a pack of opportunists around a strongman, each happily going along with the regime until the day it crosses a line that they personally disagree with. They make their excuses, they rationalize it, but eventually they either find themselves escaping out the back door or being drug out the front door.

Sessions took the AG job because he liked the idea of being Donny’s enforcer of racial superiority, but he ended up being shown the door when he had one too many problems with Donny criming out loud. Now Barr is working the job because he’s cool with thinking an exec has unlimited and unchallenged authority, but even he’s starting to chafe under the whole criming out in the open.

I don’t think Barr has a problem at all with the criming out in the open. He’s on board with a theocracy and is working full-time to help Trump friends escape punishment they deserve and make sure that Trump foes are harmed even though they’ve committed no crimes.

He may have believed that the institutions have been so damaged that he would retain power. Let’s see if he will fall. Here’s hoping.