Northern Nixon nor Agnew went to jail for even a day.

Now though we are learning the consequences of, you know, in our history

letting presidents evade personal punishment when they have committed crimes

because now we've got a former president who isn't leaving office like Nixon did like

Agnew did now we've got one who isn't eliminating the ongoing danger to the public

by getting out of public life. So maybe that could have been what he traded his freedom for.

No, for our sins, what we've got now is one of these guys who's staying in public life

and therefore the threat is alive right he's running to get back into the

presidency with four different criminal trials stacked up like taxing planes on a runway.

And so no, none of us having any idea what it will mean for us as a country for him to be sent

to jail as part of these criminal proceedings is part of

what is new for us in this moment, which means we are about to find out what it's

like to be a country that has a presidential candidate and former president in jail because he

refuses to follow court orders. It's not a thought experiment anymore. It's not the

future. It is here. Are we ready? And the rule of law and the democratic system go together, right?

As the rule of law has bent and been broken by Trump and his movement.

We've also seen the Democratic system

bend and get broken by Trump and his movement.

Obviously, we did not have a peaceful transfer of power

the last time he competed in and lost an election.

There is no commitment at all, no expectation at all by anyone that he and his followers will

allow for a peaceful transfer of power

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