I’ll be brief. We knew this was coming. That doesn’t make it any less dangerous. The indictment of James Comey tonight is a major escalation in Donald Trump’s war on his fellow Americans.
You can read about the Comey indictment everywhere. It’s weak. It will almost surely be dismissed. But a conviction is not necessarily what the president is seeking.
Like threats from the FCC that led to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, like executive orders aimed at politically-motivated investigations of liberal groups, like masked immigrations agents terrorizing communities across the nation, like sending in the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, like sending the Guard to Washington DC, like threatening to send the Guard to Chicago, like sending the Guard to Memphis, like extrajudicial killings of vessels in international waters, like demands to states from the Justice Department for voter lists and the associated lawsuits that have accompanied those demands, like political purges at the FBI and other government agencies, like arrests of elected officials at immigration facilities, like the appointment of inexperienced sycophants to powerful positions within the courts, like the executive orders that seek to expand the president’s constitutional powers to give him jurisdiction over our elections, the indictment of James Comey is about making Americans scared.
Scared of the president, scared of the Justice Department, scared of the power they are wielding over those of us who disagree with them. They want you to be scared to speak your mind. They want you to shut up and let them do what they want.
Don’t do it.
That’s right. Not scared. Not quiet. Not happening.