The Rubicon Crossing
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Erick's opening monologue today.
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| 0:00.0 | Now I'm going to tell you exactly what I think about the Trump stuff. |
| 0:06.1 | Can you handle it? |
| 0:07.8 | Buckle up. |
| 0:12.2 | It would not surprise me in the least little bit that Donald Trump engaged in some hairbrain scheme that winds up blowing up in his face |
| 0:24.7 | as a violation of federal law. |
| 0:27.6 | But you beat him at the ballot box, people. |
| 0:33.3 | A reporter, I said this this morning, that you don't beat Donald Trump in court and throw him in prison. |
| 0:44.4 | You beat him at the ballot box. |
| 0:47.8 | This is a unique case. |
| 0:50.3 | Go back all the way to ancient times. |
| 0:53.3 | And even in ancient Greece, the Greeks understood it's not worth it to pursue justice if you must burn the world down to get it. |
| 1:07.1 | It's not justice at the end because what you've done is destroyed everything to get your justice. |
| 1:16.3 | I've given up trying to explain to progressives why this is a bad idea because they're so into, well, it's the righteous cause. |
| 1:23.2 | They're zealots. |
| 1:24.4 | They are zealots. |
| 1:26.7 | They are as zealous as the men who got into planes and flew them into buildings on 9-11. |
| 1:32.2 | Yes, they are. |
| 1:33.1 | I know people will be mad at me for saying that. |
| 1:37.1 | But they would be perfectly fine destroying the country to put Trump under jail. |
| 1:42.9 | Every single person listening to this show right now, |
| 1:47.0 | left, right, and center has some sense that this nation is fraying at the seams, if not |
| 1:53.8 | tattering in the middle and ready to come apart. Every single person listening to this program |
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