The White House has found a novel way to ensure Donald Trump’s nominees ascend to power.
Federal judges in the Western District of Washington swore in former King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney Wednesday morning. Within 54 minutes, Trump fired him.
The district’s 17 federal judges have been trying to find a replacement for Seattle’s First Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd, after Trump failed to formally nominate him. Floyd was appointed in October, though his name was never officially advanced to the Senate for consideration.
Federal law grants a district’s judges the power to appoint a U.S. attorney if the president and the acting attorney general fail to do so within 120 days, subsequently stonewalling the procedural Senate hearings.
What have you done? The point of my post was to remind you that there is no single American monolithic moral entity.
As an individual, you and an American have the same moral agency and duty to correct a wrong that you did not directly create. Likewise you share the same collective blame. So tell me, why haven’t you done more? If you think the question is absurd, you’ve just explained to yourself why it’s absurd to hold an individual American who hasn’t personally solved Trump to blame for Trump.
Again, some Americans do deserve blame. A lot of them in fact. Which ones? The ones who support and acted in support of Trump. It’s pretty simple actually. Moral reasoning doesn’t have to be hard, but you have to put in the effort rather than just say what makes you feel good and righteous.
Sure, it’s a fair question. Without doxxing myself, I’m in a situation where there’s few realistic options for me to contribute more without getting myself arrested. Plus, I have my own local politics to focus on, which helps my community resist Trump.
To be fair, maybe I could help do some remote organization with more engaged groups, I will look into that.
Anyways, scapegoating the 30% of Americans who actively voted for trump honestly just makes the problem worse.