Sentencing Trump

WITHIN A FEW DAYS, lord willing, Donald J. Trump will finally, at long last, be sentenced for a crime, or, more specifically, thirty four crimes, all felonies. The New York judge is scheduled to do this before the inauguration. Trump will become president, again, not only as a convicted felon, but as one who has been sentenced. The sentence will, it is being speculated, most likely be some sort of suspended non-sentence, involving no prison time, and perhaps no financial penalties or fines, but merely, some form of probation...essentially... nothing. Perhaps an appropriate sentence would be four years of publically supervised probation, beginning January 20, of this year, and ending on January 20, 2029, the day Trump, assuming he is still president then, supposedly, in the absence of any coup, leaves office. That, in effect is the sentence under which he, Trump, or any president, serves, and should serve, as president. Since the incoming president is a convicted criminal, and a known lifelong criminal, it is of paramount importance that we the American people pay close attention to absolutely everything Trump says or does, beginning yesterday, and continuing for as long as he remains president, even more than usual. The best explanation as to why it is legal for a convicted felon to be president of the United States since there is nothing in the constitution nor any law against it, is that the founders simply could not and did not even remotely imagine a situation in which a convicted felon would ever be elected president in the United States. Our, America's founding fathers had such little respect for the intelligence of the American people that they did everything in their power to prevent we the people from having real political power in this, our representative republic. And yet, they may have alsso overestimated the wisdom of the Amerian people two hundred years in their future. They also seemed to have assumed that in the event that a totally unsuited reprobate ever got elected by the teeming masses of land owning white gentlemen, that the electoral college would come voting to the rescue, and overturn the bad choice. As it tunrs out, the only attempt so far to use the electoral college to overturn a presidential election results was Trump's insurrection four years ago today. Clearly, neither the electoral college, nor perhaps constitution itself, works as well as the founders might have hoped, and should, arguably, either be altered or scrapped entirely. As the sun rose over frigid, snow bound Washington D.C. on January 6th, 2024, there was not the slightest indication that the eletoral college was prepared to overturn Trump's election, and to install Kamala Harris as president, on the grounds that Trump is a convicted criminal, and therefore unfit to serve. "Equal justice under law", the words which are chiseled into the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building, which has always been an observable sham, is now a demonstrable one. The American president is above the law. A person who should be in prison now and should have been in prison years ago, is set to become the nation's forty seventh president, with the power to commit many more crimes and to wreak havoc upon our cherished but allusive American democracy. Even worse, he apparently has the full support of a high percentage of the Amerian people, perhaps as many as half. Trump's lawyers will doubtless appeal the sentence, whatever it is, all the way to the SCOTUS, a total of two appeals. This will have the beneficial effect of regularly reminding the country of Trump's criminality, and inspire his followers to continue falsely claiming that Trump is being treated unfairly. At the end of the day, as we like to say, Trump will not be remembered for having made America great again, nor so much for having served two non consecutive terms as president, but for his criminality, and for the tragic ways in which that criminality directly harmed the country, perhaps irrepairably.