Donald Trump's First Three Days As The 47th President Of The United States (1-22-25)

Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite by Peter Schweizer, https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Corruption-Peter-Schweizer/dp/006289790X
Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine: https://x.com/2waytvapp
Interaction ritual chains by Randall Collins, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142897, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142879, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139572
What do we mean when we say a person has good energy? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154428
My thoughts on the January 6 pardons, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158652

I hate that Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election and hence paved the way for the January 6 riot.

There is a case to be made that electoral changes made in the run-up to that election gave Democrats an unfair advantage, but there is no case to be made that votes illegally cast determined the election.

I hate that Trump commuted the sentences of people who engaged in more serious crimes than trespassing on January 6.

If Trump selectively pardoned and commuted January 6 perpetrators rather than mass pardoning 1500 or so people, that would have been easier to accept and defend. Trump’s mass pardons here are massively unpopular. On the other hand, the January 6 riot made no difference in the quality of life of 99.999% of Americans (aside from how they feel about it).

I want the people who assaulted law enforcement on January 6 or who damaged the capitol, or who helped to organize the riot, to be punished according to law just as I want the antifa who burned Washington D.C. at Trump’s 2017 inauguration to be punished according to law. The lefties weren’t punished however while the Trump supporters were punished because Washington D.C. is run by the left.

On a scale of 1-10, I view the seriousness of January 6 in the neighborhood of a 2 (while 9-11, by contrast, was 10/10 in my books).

Under Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin rioters tried to disrupt the smooth operation of government in that state for months. I don’t believe they were sufficiently punished.

BLM riots led to thousands of unnecessary deaths (the Ferguson Effect). Many of the rioters were not sufficiently punished.

I wish that Donald Trump had followed the norms of the transition of power in January 2021. The Democrats were more gracious to Trump after the 2024 election than Republicans were to Democrats following the 2020 election.

The United States is a nation of laws, but is the United States primarily a nation of laws, or are there other considerations? I don’t love America because of the Constitution nor because of its laws nor because of its procedures nor because of its primary documents nor because of its institutions. I don’t love America because of its democracy. I love America because it is my home and I feel that my fellow Americans are an extended family.

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