Why Trump will not be held accountable for the January 6 Insurrection

There is no more political accountability in democracy

One of the key premises of democracy is that the electorate will hold politicians accountable through the ballot box. 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 politicians are made known to the voters and if they disapprove of the politician’s policies and actions, they can take corrective action by voting the politician out at the next election. It is this feedback loop that holds politicians and the government accountable.

On paper, the concept of voters holding their governments and politicians accountable at the ballot boxes makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, this assumes that voters are not humans and are hence infallible. And, from the experience in the US, we all know that voters are indeed fallible, and politicians exploit this. January 6 Insurrection Even as irrefutable evidence surface that Trump (and many Republican Senators and Congressmen) staged a coup, the probability…