It's a choice between betraying the spirit of the Founding Fathers by allowing a criminal to prevail and to destroy the American Experiment in favor of self-serving authoritarian tyranny -- or temporarily betraying the spirit of the Founding Fathers by using his own weapons against him in an autocratic way -- as an act of service to the greater good -- as authorized by the Supreme Court ruling on "immunity".
One is a long-term betrayal of the higher values of this country and the other is a short-term betrayal for the sake of preservation of those higher values. The difference is one of a habitual pattern vs. a deliberate, but temporary pattern.
How well does the metaphor of "at war from within" fit? Old saying: "All's fair in love and war."
Sometimes, extreme conditions call for extreme measures -- in this case, sacrifice of ones self-image for the greater good -- to beat them at their own game. The motive makes all the difference.
It would be a great and courageous -- not "gesture" (which signifies only a symbolic communication) -- but course of action (which indicates lasting consequences).
The biggest problem could have been solved, when it was small.
It's no longer small -- and it has the potential to get much bigger.
Alito, Thomas, Trump, et. al., who are no longer "playing by the rules", must be neutralized, the sooner the better. "Neutralized" as in, "neutered." Outside the "rules". The same is true of all who have been accessories after-the-fact.
Freedom without responsibility is the ideal of the adolescent; freedom without conscience is the mode of the juvenile delinquent -- and of the Supreme Court Six.
Orchestrated action, carried out. That's where the courage is called for.
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