Mary Trump - Crossing the Rubicons
Shortly after the election, after it became clear to those of us who were not yet entirely convinced that the second Trump administration would be everything he and the architects of Project 2025 told us it would be, we began to hear a lot about the Rubicon that must not be crossed. That was understood to be the dismantling of the rule of law by the Trump regime’s defiance of the rule of law. We would know this happened if, for example, a judge gave an order to Donald’s Department of Justice and the DOJ simply refused to comply.
If we cross that Rubicon, we were told, there is no going back. That is, after all, how crossing the Rubicon works: the rule of law ceases to exist; civil wars start; democracies fall. And none of it can be taken back.
I think we crossed the Rubicon in November of 2016 when a business failure and glorified game show host, with no experience, no discernible positive human qualities, and no decency was elected over the most qualified candidate in American history. And then we crossed another one after January 6th, 2021, and then another, when the corrupt illegitimate super-majority of the Supreme Court decided that Donald Trump, and Donald Trump alone, was not only above the law, but also deserved an imperial presidency, which tens of millions of Americans subsequently granted him. At that point, I think we crossed another because, with the prospect of Donald’s second term in office facing us, we finally figured out that the insurrection he incited on January 6, 2021, was complete—and it had been successful after all.
It is terrible, of course, that we have come to this place where we have every reason to believe our last remaining institutions will not hold. But here we are. Now the question is, since we are heading into our next Constitutional crisis (because I believe we’ve already been in one for a very long time): will anything happen in the next few months or years that will enable us to find our way back?
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