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In reply to the discussion: In 2009, President Obama made a decision to not investigate the Bush/Cheney Administration. [View all]meadowlander
(4,393 posts)who will sit there for decades like leeches unless they are systematically removed.
We will never move forward until we have a national conversation about what the role of government properly is and ought to be and what the role of the non-partisan civil service is. We can't do that if we pretend that Trump and Russia (and the Republican party for the past forty years) haven't systemically tried to cripple the proper functioning of the federal government.
And the way to address it is to shine light and prosecute corruption - not jump straight to "let's move on in the name of healing". That hasn't worked for forty years and it won't work now. It's just a giant middle finger in the face of all the people who voted for Biden in the first place because they are desperate to see actual consequences for wrong-doing, corruption and theft from the public purse at their expense.