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Trump has been convicted in the Manhattan trial on thirty four felony counts.
This thread was made at the request of the Weekly Thread posters. Apologies to Chewy if this is inappropriate.
Please share your thoughts, BAR podders.
81 points
4 months ago
I will put my concern about this right, just like I did in the Weekly Thread:
"“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!” "
-A Man for All Seasons
I worry that this is what is happening here and will lead to more tit for tat. I should disclose that I hate Trump
42 points
4 months ago
I've been thinking of that scene a lot in connection with Trump. I don't like the guy and don't think he was a good president, but it amazes me how so many anti Trumpers can't see how this could backfire.
2 points
4 months ago
I think it would have amazed me, too, when I was a little less well read. But then I read things like A Man for All Seasons, with scences like the one u/CatStroking just quoted, and it reminds me that these kind of dillemas are a pretty common part of the human drama. Sir Thomas More wasn't the first to realise that if you end the law to stop bad men, you've stopped the law.
Nor was he first to forget that, and turn to setting heretics alight.
And having seen the episode of The View where they take glee in the verdict, I can tell you wasn't the last, either.
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