Presidential Immunity And More Debate Fallout

«Unless Trump loses, America ends.», Timothy Snyder wrote this week. He knows a thing or two about tyranny. These past seven days have increased the odds of the worst case scenario, and further raised the stakes: An abysmal debate performance by the only person currently standing between Trump and a second term, and the Supreme Court granting Trump immunity for past and future crimes. What to make of these two major developments? I found the 538’s Politics podcast helpful.


From Weekly Filet #496, in July 2024.

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