Leaning Into Nihilism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : As a case in point, on Saturday Trump named Charles Kushner as his next ambassador to France.
43% : Had Trump eventually pardoned Hunter, he would have done so to "balance" pardons of figures like the January 6-ers in hopes of legitimizing the latter.
43% : But his nomination isn't even close to being the sleaziest Trump made this past weekend.
41% : That advice is well taken: Thanks to the Supreme Court, on January 20 Trump will gain the authority to immunize executive branch officers for whatever federal crimes they commit on his behalf and to be completely immune from criminal prosecution himself in doing so.
40% : It's an advertisement to Americans to lean into nihilism and stop taking liberal norms seriously at the very moment, with Trump preparing to take power, that classical liberals are desperate to rouse the public's civic consciousness.
34% : When he says at one point, "I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice," he sounds like a Republican hack on a CNN panel grousing about the charges that Jack Smith brought against Trump.
32% : Kushner is a nepotist (he's Jared Kushner's father), was pardoned by Trump in his first term for various federal crimes, and has no apparent qualifications for a diplomatic post with a major ally.
31% : The Hunter pardon is, perhaps, a small step toward conditioning Americans to feel as numb to Democratic corruption as they feel about Trump's.
28% : Now that the sitting president has abused the pardon power to do favors for a crony, Democrats have no leg to stand on politically when Trump starts doing the same thing next month.
26% : Lost in the coverage of his coup attempt in late 2020 and early 2021 was the fact that Trump at the time issued some of the swampiest, most corrupt pardons the country has ever seen.
18% : "A country that reelects Trump (and Kash Patel/Pam Bondi) is not worthy of Biden sacrificing his son to a sense of justice the country doesn't actually believe in," comedian J-L Cauvin said in defending Hunter Biden's pardon.
13% : No matter what Joe Biden did or didn't do, Trump was always going to behave corruptly in abusing his pardon power and Americans were always going to not care.
11% : Trump was always more likely to pardon Hunter himself than to sic Kash Patel on him, in fact-which is another reason for disgust at Biden's pardon.

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