1150: 2/2 After the Show Trial Fails. Michael E Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis, #newamericancivilwar;
Image: Prosecutor General Andrey Vyshinsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Vyshinsky) (centre), reading the 1937 indictment against Karl Radek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Radek) during the 2nd Moscow Trial (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Trials) Michael E Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis, #newamericancivilwar; Johns Hopkins; in re: Show trial has three phases. 1. Theatrical ritual. 2 . The prosecutor is the judge. 3. Anyone attached to the opponent party is intimidated, cowed. None of these is happening: Democrats are weak not because they are intrinsically, but because they've pursued a losing strategy. Vanity, narcissism. Working against themselves; have created a dynamic in which the enemy – GOP—are incentivized to fight back. This is how show trials always fail. Also, the unprecedented event of stripping a Congresswoman of her committee assignments. Tragic. Not only a strategy of inevitable defeat, but they're locked in to it. Persecuting “extremists,” making a new Patriot Act – the more violent they become, the stronger the resistance. We believe ourselves to be rational; all wrong: