So Donald Trump is now a convicted felon?
Sakharov was a convicted felon.
Solzhenitsyn was a convicted felon.
Vaclav Havel was a convicted felon.
Martin Luther King was a convicted felon.
And Nelson Mandela was a convicted felon.
You might as well tell us that Sakharov's fate proves that Leonid Brezhnev was a far more upstanding citizen than was the USSR's "Domestic Enemy Number One." You might as well say that Mandela's 18 years in Robben Island jail cell proves the utter decency of, and the national need for, South Africa's apartheid government.
One bitter X tweet I read yesterday states bitterly that Trump is "still going to stir [shit emoji] up left and right, as loudly and unabashedly as possible.
News item # 2: living under a communist régime or an apartheid dictatorship gives you the right — nay, gives you the duty — to "stir [shit emoji] up left and right, as loudly and unabashedly as possible." (Thanks for the Instalink, Sarah)
Is it accurate to claim, as does the New York Times, that the "president's conviction in an New York criminal trail [reveals], yet again, why he is unfit for office"?
Or is it more accurate to say that the eight-year-long armada of impeachments, investigations, and court cases suggests that the Democrats are turning the United States into a banana republic, complete with kangaroo courts engaging in show trials, in order to "fundamentally transform" the country into a one-party state?
… In conclusion, can't we say that Americans are lucky?• Related: What Other Countries Have Persecuted and Prosecuted Opposition Leaders?
America has finally figured out that people in the West were wrong to demand that the Soviet Union, Communist China, and like régimes should imitate the United States. Instead, the USA should try to become more like a banana republic such as China, Cuba, or Venezuela. …
