Ford, the only selected and never elected President, pardoned the only President ever to resign in an administration where the original VP was forced from office for malfeasance. What a rat's nest of corruption and vileness and all quietly set aside in the public mind (if it can be called a mind).
The capacity of this country to just forget about war crimes and other gross misconduct is only made more incredible by its tendency to seize upon silly things like blow jobs and telephone calls to leaders of minor countries.
The top to bottom, virulent corruption of the two party dictatorship should make America gag just before spewing them all out of power. Yet, all continues....
There is something to the above.
What good did it do to let Nixon skate for his third rate burglary? He should have shared a cell with Johnson for the war crimes in Viet Nam.
What good did it do to let Reagan skate for Iran-Contra and the mass murder in South America? He should have shared a cell with Bush, the Elder.
What good did it do to let Bush, the Lesser, and his henchmen skate for lying the country into a war, and torture? He should have shared a cell with Cheney and Rumsfeld, not to mention Yoo and a host of others.
The empire doesn't do accountability, no matter how high the bodies pile up in far-away countries. Their pursuit of happiness, their dignity, their self-determination, their lives plainly do not show up on the imperial ledger. That's just how it is.
This failure of accounting shows up, unfailingly, in near-everybody's judgment, like, "telephone calls to leaders of
minor countries." Minor countries, of no concern, populated by lesser humans who are, by definition, also not anyone's concern. In that, the country achieves near perfect unity. Examples to the contrary are very few, and very far between.
The nation, of course, knows that punishment, swift and harsh, is a necessary prerequisite to deter criminality. Just in their imperial pashas this principle is not applicable: Maintaining an empire requires, by necessity entails, body counts elsewhere, and exacting punishment for it would be a contradiction to the very status of an imperial nation, and a threat to the MIC that maintains, and profits from, it. And that's why no punishment is inflicted. Everyone, however vaguely, is aware you can have an empire, or a democracy and the rule of law, but not both.
Now, of course, getting all upset about "telephone calls to leaders of minor countries" looks petty by comparison, a ledger grotesquely skewed, scales ridiculously tilted, and resulting judgments so preposterously unreasonable as to be laughable. So, it is actually a reasonable question to ask, why are about half of the imperial subjects so upset? The answer should be obvious: Imperial masters are supposed to subdue Those people, people abroad, not seek their petty personal advantage. Moreover, recruiting foreign influence on domestic elections thwarts the subjects' remaining right to choose between two sets of imperial masters to govern and to maintain the empire. This choice, of course, is the necessary precondition for the subjects to maintain the illusion they are the sovereigns in charge of the empire. And that's why, yes, "telephone calls to leaders of minor countries" led to impeachment, while, say, the War on Iraq did not. It will, of course, not lead to conviction and removal, because the other half of the imperial subjects are convinced they are entitled to be in charge, and near unanimous in support of the imperial sovereign no matter what.
So, there was never a chance Trump would be indicted, much less convicted, for the crimes committed while in office. The imperial subjects' rage over that would be out of bounds. Yang just spilled the beans.
Trump is so mean 
