Thank You Trump for Highlighting Our Broken Government
Donald Trump may have thought that he was doing a good job scaring Hillary Clinton with threats of jail. Did he just remind America about our broken government?
By now, everyone knows about the threat Donald Trump made to Hillary Clinton at the townhall debate. Not only did he threaten to assign a special prosecutor to look into her email scandal, but he also said something that raised even more eyebrows in the exchange. When Clinton said that she’s glad he’s not in charge of the justice system he quipped, “you’d be in jail.”
There is a lot of talk as to whether or not this shows that America can quickly fall under a fascist rule. While this whole fiasco has shown that the media still can’t decipher right nationalistic socialism from left nationalistic socialism, it also sheds light on an issue that isn’t being widely discussed — the intertwining of our justice system with the executive branch of government.
We all know that when government investigates the government for something government has done wrong, the findings always reveal that the government found the government free and clear of all charges. Yet, we accept it and move on as if it’s just business as normal. One of the appeals that Donald Trump has to his base is that he is supposedly an outsider who will get into office and clean up Washington. This repair of D.C. will most certainly include further investigation of Hillary Clinton on any wide number of scandals until a conviction is handed down and she is behind bars.
However, if this were to happen, wouldn’t that also be business as usual? Remember: the executive branch of government continuously interferes with the workings of the judicial branch. In turn, the judicial branch gives the executive branch a pass on their crimes and allows them to live above the law. How could Donald Trump using his executive power in order to manipulate the criminal justice system be any different than another person using executive power in order to get the opposite result?
