By Joel Mathis The Week
Donald Trump is being Donald Trump again. He held another rally on Saturday night in Texas, the latest event in his probably-running-for-president tour, and as always he used it to dwell on his grievances. He’s angry about the multiple inquiries into his personal and presidential activities, and he’s eager to unleash his followers on the people investigating him.
“If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington D.C., in New York, in Atlanta, and elsewhere because our country and our elections are corrupt,” Trump told his enthusiastic fans.
That sounds an awful lot like a redux of the Trump-incited “Stop the Steal” protests that became the violent Jan. 6 insurrection: Trump is plainly, openly weaponizing his base as a threat against any official who might try to hold him accountable for his (alleged) financial and constitutional misdeeds — he even dangled future presidential pardons as a reward for the Jan. 6 defendants, offering an incentive to followers who might be inclined to commit mayhem in the service of his ambitions. He’s not much hiding his real aims anymore: On Sunday, Trump put out a statement that (among other things) grumbled that then-Vice President Mike Pence should have “changed the outcome” of the 2020 election. It’s not hard to see where all of this is going.
So what are Democrats going to do about it?
