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“Donald Trump will not be held accountable for the January 6 Insurrection.”
Let me say that again, Donald Trump will not be held accountable for his role in the January 6 Insurrection. The hard truth is that the key premise of democracy — the electorate holding the government accountable through the ballot box — has failed. In a functioning democracy, the three estates of the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary work in concert to advance the will of the people. The legislative sets the policies, the executive implements those policies, and the judiciary acts as the check on the abuses or excesses of the executive. Supported by the fourth estate, the free press, the actions of the government are made known to the voters and if they disapprove of the government’s policies and actions, they can take corrective action by voting the government out at the next election. It is this feedback loop that holds the government and politicians accountable.
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