Whataboutism will be the death of us
If you went back even five years ago and told people that in 2026 the DOJ would use taxpayer funds to set up a $1.8 billion slush fund to compensate the rioters who broke into the Capitol and beat police officers on January 6, as well as anyone else who had been "wrongly prosecuted" by President Biden's DOJ, they would likely find it odd. Then if you explained that the DOJ also gave Trump and his family blanket immunity from the IRS, they'd really be incredulous.
But what makes it all so much more dangerous and demoralizing is the way in which Trump supporters simply say, 'well, the Democrats started it..." or "it's because of Jack Smith..." It's convinced me that there's not a red line and there never will be.
We're in a race to the bottom and it's difficult to see how this ends well.