Maybe American journalists should reflect on the courage of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi.

Because if there's anything we know across the pond it's that chasing fascist votes is a winning electoral strategy for the leftist party.

This would include each of the last 3 Democratic presidents and most current party leaders. But look where supporting anti-immigrant policies to accommodate the hard right has gotten us. The accommodation strategy has utterly failed, it's time for a new approach.

We should rarely be confident in meaningful consequences for lawyers or politicians

They didn't even do Nuremberg trials for stuff the US did during WW2, like putting people in concentration camps in the US and nuking entire cities of civilians. Nuremberg trials for ICE is pure delusion, unserious cope.

It strikes me as a way to avoid taking action now based on the illusion that justice will come through normal channels someday. It's the belief that the system which has failed us so far will correct itself in the future. It won't.

It's not about feelings, it's about having a moral center and not perennially getting outwitted by a failed casino owner.