Hysteria in America is reaching new heights driven by selfish partisan politics

Once the leader of the Free World, America is turning into an insane asylum of extremist illogical politics, while the world is champing at the bit to tear us apart

By Ray Hanania

PAID/Politics Trump Immunity/Tuesday July 2, 2024

Average Americans are helpless to do anything as the far right and the far left slip over the deep-end with frightening scenarios before us, screaming headlines, name-calling and warnings of this country's potential demise.

President Joe Biden promised when he took office four years ago to strive to bring Americans together. Instead, like his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, he has only fueled the divide, allowing his most extreme supporters to gas-light the country on every issue and level.

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court, our nation's highest authority on the Rule of Law, concluded that Presidents -0 all presidents — have absolute immunity when it comes to their government related actions.

It doesn't mean that a president, like Richard M. Nixon, for example, or Bill Clinton, can't be held responsible for criminal and sexual predator conduct. But it does mean that in your capacity as a government official -- in this case the highest government official in the land -- your government actions, thoughts and decisions are protected.

Mao Zedong, the spiritual leader of Communist China, and other world dictators and tyrants must be laughing in their grave today at the slow and steady political destruction of America. Tyg728, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

This principle of government immunity is not uncommon. It applies on nearly every level of government for many elected officials to be free to do what they believe, having been elected by a majority of American voters. Members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House have immunity from their government decisions as do many others at state and municipal levels.