Now, on the subject of DJT v. United States of America. I don’t know how any of you feel about the SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity (I, clearly, dissent), but since our system, right or wrong, makes it the new law of the land, it has certainly significantly raised the bar on the standards for which we must all consider putting someone into that now especially vaunted chair.
I do not know whether this decision will shift the electoral momentum towards Biden and away from Trump, as some are starting to suggest, but it certainly should. Trump has repeatedly proven himself to be unreliable ethically, and prepared to work in his own best interests rather than what’s best for the people or the country. He simply does not deserve to sit in the chair that SCOTUS has now made so lofty. 40+ of his former inner circle, including his prior Veep have said so.
I am not so naive as to think you all agree with my strength of view on this, but I surely implore you all, for the sake of your grandchildren and your country, to ask yourselves whether you are prepared to risk their futures to a world designed by Donald Trump.
I am not such a religious man and I do not often pray to God, though I have wondered whether I would find myself doing so in the face of the great abyss. I now find myself feeling like I am standing at the edge of that abyss. I have said in the context of my life and my career that I have seen the abyss and stared into it, and that it no longer scares me. I was wrong. The abyss doesn’t scare me for my own mortality, but it does scare me for all that I love, none more than my children and their children as well as my country.
We had all better get out there and beat the drum for the electorate to choose more wisely than ever, who they are prepared to entrust all that we hold sacred. We no longer have the freedom to be flippant in our presidential choice. We must always now focus on one attribute above all, the absolute integrity and character of the person we place on the throne of power. There is no luxury to be even a little bit wrong on that consequential decision.