DO REPUBLICANS EVEN CARE ABOUT OUR COUNTRY?

Senator Lindsey Graham

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham sees the apparent handwriting on the wall, that Attorney General Merrick Garland has little choice but to indict Donald Trump on one of several charges.  The evidence is there.

But Senator Graham's primary loyalty is not to the United States, its Constitution, values or national secrets.

Lindsey, like many other prominent Republicans, is more concerned about the political fallout of a Trump indictment to his own political future and that of the Republican Party.

That is why he threatens that violence similar to the January 6 insurrection could break out if Trump is indicted.  In other words: prosecutors should worry more about the reaction to their verdicts than justice itself.  

Notice how Lindsey Graham accurately described Trump back in 2015 before he became the principal figurehead of the Republican Party:

“He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.”

“What Mr. Trump is doing – and I don’t think he has a clue about anything. He’s just trying to get his numbers up and get the biggest reaction he can."

"Tell Donald Trump to go to Hell."

The irony of this is that an indictment of Trump does not equal a conviction.  Does anyone not think that at least one MAGA-hatted individual will likely serve on almost any 12-person jury?

Can you visualize any Trumper serving on that jury voting to convict the former President irrespective of the evidence before them?

I can't.  

Trump will characterize an 11-1 jury for conviction as a "vindication" and his followers will embrace that view worshipfully.

So Lindsey needn't worry.  Our national psyche is already fucked.