“Every time Dean has something anti-Trump to say, the media dutifully crowds around him with their recording devices.”
The current “news” story is the campaign to remove Trump from the ballot using the 14th amendment insurrection provision. There is a full blown, carefully orchestrated public relations and media management effort supporting it, just as there is behind every major news story. John Dean is one of the participating paid actors in this completely planned and orchestrated news story. Dean reads from his prepared script and then the media mouthpieces read from their scripts to amplify the story. These scripted events have happened so many times they are obvious to anyone with the ability to reason.
Contrary to Dean’s statement this campaign will fail at the Supreme Court. Had Trump been convicted by the Senate of insurrection in the second impeachment trial there would be a case for using the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment. If Jack Smith can get a conviction in a federal court for insurrection, there might be an argument the Supreme Court would consider for invoking the 14th Amendment.
However, in the current Colorado and Maine cases the Supreme Court would be destroying the rule of law if they in essence allowed bureaucrats and politicians to punish Trump, by removing him from the ballot, without having been convicted of the crime. The precedent would essentially open the floodgates for the administrative state to deny citizens the right to participate in the political process without due process of law. Should the Supreme Court approve this behavior, any two bit town magistrate, or board of elections supervisor, will be able to control who appears on the ballot in that official’s jurisdiction.
What we are actually seeing is nothing more than a carefully contrived effort to tie Trump up in court and destroy him in the hearts and minds of the American people through a relentless legal, administrative, public relations and media barrage. Either the American people will see through the charade, and preserve their freedom by voting for Trump in 2024 or the effort will be successful in making them tired of Trump and they will vote Democrat or stay at home on Election Day.
Very well said