I really wish all the hype and speculation about the Epstein files would be the silver bullet that Democrats and the Trump opposition has been waiting for to bring him down. Frankly, I wish the gross incompetence he showed when he completely botched his first term in office would have been enough to convince a majority of Americans that a moral degenerate, egomaniac, psychopath should not be allowed anywhere near the White House. But our country is neither as educated or sophisticated as it likes to think that it is, and we frankly do not have an electorate capable of understanding how elections and Constitutional democracy go hand in hand.
Trump and his apologists, which include some lovely criminals like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, among other thugs and assorted human refuse, have been working for more than a decade to make his record of association with Epstein go away. Not an easy job, considering the number of people involved who were eyewitnesses and the written documentation that was kept. They were willing to wait, and bide their time until Epstein came under the direct custody of the justice department, and attorney general Bill Barr, to knock him off and make it look like suicide, or to help him succeed with the job when he failed the first time. They've erased or made things disappear for the entire time that it has been an issue, and when Democrats got control of Congress and the Presidency in 2021, they thought they'd had it.
Who knew that Merrick Garland and the justice department appointed by President Biden would do so little about it? I'm still furious over that whole set of absolute fiascos of total disregard of the rule of law. So my guess is that what's left of the files will be underwhelming, as far as their ability to produce any kind of real reaction. And they pulled that off right under the Democratic leadership in Washington's nose.
Surely we do not expect any moral outrage over this from the leadership of those in the conservative Evangelical political right. If conservative Christian pastors, church leaders and televangelists who praise Jesus with uplifted hands weren't phased by Trump's immoral adultery, felony convictions, sexual deviance and worldly image before, they aren't going to be upset by his shenanigans with Epstein. Heck, if Epstein hadn't "committed suicide," he'd be made either the head of Trump's Christian advisory board, or Secretary of the Treasury.
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, and self-professed conservative, Evangelical, doesn't appear to be bothered by any of Trump's gross immorality, but is willing to help cover it up, which makes him just as guilty. If he's not bothered by this, I wouldn't expect any Trump supporters, no matter how Christian they might claim to be, will be upset enough to want him out of office. Republican right wing Christians already think that the country is going to hell in a handbasket. It appears that they are willing to join in and help it move along to its destination much more quickly.
And so the remaining question is whether or not this will bother enough of the Trump opposition, and enough Democrats, for them to be willing to put some of their own political careers on the line to save the country from the reputation of having a chief executive who rapes children. Himming and hawing, and trying to discuss a plan is going to get them run over by a mob demanding justice.
So will this make enough of our political leadership disturbed,, sickened and enraged enough to actually do something about it. That's the bottom line question.
Frankly, I don't think there's going to be enough there to do the trick. So tell me I'm wrong.
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