One Wrong Man for a Right Important Job

“He brought 'norms' to a trump fight and democracy suffered.”

--Democratic lawyer Marc Elias describing why Biden's A.G. Merrick Garland was the “wrong man for the job” 

Trump’s nominee for Attorney General Pam Bondi testified at her Senate confirmation hearing that the Justice Department’s prosecutors had in her opinion targeted what she identified as "political opponents" by whom she meant trump. “That’s what we’ve seen for the last four years in this Administration,” she said.

So we know what's coming. Pam Bondi will conduct the first purge of trump2.0, the first of several, we would guess, as cabinet departments important for allowing the loot to leave the building will be firing or sidelining any career lawyers/scientists/experts who seem likely to resist dictatorship, question lies, or refuse unlawful orders. He intends to clear out the Justice Department, the CIA and other intelligence agencies, law enforcement itself, and foreign service, as he tightens his grip on anyone who can oppose him in a meaningful way.

Merrick Garland was a crucial misfire. Garland actually lived the famous moral dilemma -- would you kill the baby Hitler in his cradle if you could? He could have killed the future of trump during the last four years, and saved the world the pain and the disgrace. Instead, we're to be ruled by Colonel Blimp, the convicted felon of enormous appetite and zero ethics or moral qualms. 

Merrick Garland may have single-handedly let the dictator loose when he could still have been confined.