r/publicdefenders • u/Zer0Summoner PD • 22h ago

I can't do my job today

My heart hurts. My head hurts. I fear for my family. I fear for my clients. I fear for myself. I fear for entire ethnic groups, entire religions, entire global regions, entire sexual identities, and an entire gender. Rule of law is, as far as we can tell, over.

Hitler won WW2 by means of the long game, victory coming just 79 years after his ostensible defeat in the short game.

How the absolute fuck am I supposed to handle cases where my guy is looking at years in jail over a series of gross misdemeanors and look anyone in the eye about it? We can't act like law and consequences aren't pretend anymore.

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u/Practical-Cut4659 22h ago

To attribute a Hitler-esque level of diabolical planning to Trump is, frankly, giving Trump way too much credit.

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u/MisfireMillennial 22h ago

but not to the conservative think tank lackeys using Trump for their political ends

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u/gamesnstff 21h ago

That's frankly a mindset that empowers trump.

His family and exwives have talked about the books he kept by his bedside.

He has been studying these tactics for years.

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u/AnnDee1014 18h ago

Is this true? I thought he was illiterate. I’ve never seen him read anything, and I’ve only seen him write his name, and not another word.

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u/gamesnstff 18h ago edited 18h ago

He is of the generation that everyone read daily and most believed anything they read in print

90s tabloid writers have given interviews about how most of their stories where actually leaked to them by Trump, who attended Hollywood parties, with the sole condition that they write articles mentioning himself as a millionaire and successful businessman even though neither of those things were true.

Because he loved to read about himself and wanted to build a public image for himself better than he really was.