When faced with possible criminality and serious abuse of power by our own highest elected leader, and a Constitutional process to hold him accountable, we decide that he is above the law. We just don't care if crimes were committed. Honor and integrity in our elected leaders are now irrelevant. We have validated corruption, thereby inviting even more venal corruption in the future. Socialism has been proven an abject failure around the world.
People living under it fight to end it, and risk their lives to flee from it.
We embrace it. We cheer the rhetoric of class envy, and we demand the redistribution of wealth. Anyone who succeeds by his own hard work is considered a threat who must be destroyed in the name of radical egalitarianism. What this election proves is that the people of this nation do not want a limited Constitutional republic, they do not want the independence of ruling their own lives. We sometimes speak of our freedoms being stolen by an intrusive, overbearing, and unresponsive government.