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Why the Trump Rape Trial Now Looks More IMPORTANT to Me Than It Did [1]

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Date: 2023-04-28  

I’ve always been sympathetic to E. Jean Carroll’s wanting to hold Trump accountable for what I don’t doubt that he did to her.

But compared to Trump’s assault on American democracy throughout his presidency, what Trump did with women before he was President has seemed a secondary matter.

What’s important to me about the Rule of Law taking Trump down is that Trump be stripped of his power to inflict fundamental damage on the nation. But now I’m seeing how this Rape Trial can play an important role in doing just that.

The picture of Ms. Carroll’s testimony is most impressive. She seems to have been about as powerful and credible a witness as one could imagine, and this sympathetic and entirely believable white woman is delivering to the nation a powerful picture of what a monster Donald Trump is.

His monstrousness is evident also in his attempted coup, his treatment of Mike Pence, his extorting Ukraine, his jeopardizing American national security with documents he stole and would not give back, and many other things that should drive any decent American away from giving him ANY support.

But those things take place at an abstract level. They will not register at the most fundamental and primitive level of our human moral consciousness.

But when we see that this man so wounded this sympathetic and respectable woman that she apparently permanently lost her capacity to have a romantic relationship, his monstrousness registers on our basic human understanding.

This case now looks to me not only as a place where a particular woman will — it seems likely — get a good the justice she seeks, but that it will help turn even more of the American people against this terrible man.

It looks like a valuable part of the overall strategy to topple this terrible man who has done so much damage to the nation, and threatens to do much more.

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