I've slain the multilemma I wrote about a few days ago that was causing such angst about the direction this blog should take.
I accomplished this thanks to a shocking reminder from CNN's Brianna Keilar who, at the end of a piece about Trump's recent letter retaliating for Archdemon Mitch McConnell's "betrayal," said: "Trump is sending [the letter] from the political graveyard right now, but there's no guarantee he doesn't rise from the grave in four years."
I didn't quite scream, but the hair on the back of my neck stood to attention and my heart thumped a few times. Of course there's no guarantee. I'm hoping he lands up in federal prison for at least one of the myriad crimes he's committed. That in itself wouldn't stop him from running, but it would be damned difficult to run a campaign from a prison cell. Now that the whole world knows about his crimes in detail, there's no reason for any prosecutor to hold back.
So despite the position statement in my previous post that "In the end we decided it was better to move forward than to always be looking backward," we're going to be open to all topics that invite comment under our revised motto, "Veritas Super Omnia," Truth Above All, and Trump, his cult, and the Republican congressional leadership, are still fair game.
When Al Capone was finally convicted and imprisoned, it wasn't for any of his violent and highly visible crimes, but for tax evasion. Remember there's always hope.
--- Diogenes, 2/19/2021