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When the SDNY did not indict Donald Trump and his obviously corrupt Trump Organization, it was not a failure of "justice". This is the way our system is intended to work.
Its not that the justice system failed, its that the American people, by which I mean progressives (possibly progressive democrats), are stupid and unrealistic to believe that it ever would happen based on what they should have learned about our system by now. A few of these "lessons" include, the SDNY is no more capable of taking on a corrupt crime organization like Trump than they are to take on the Genovese family. The job of the SDNY is to get convictions based on the laws that the corrupt legislature has put in place to victimize the small fish and protect their friends. Also, the job of the SDNY is not to take any risks involving high profile cases and by definition all high profile cases are therefore excluded. The Department of Justice is no more about "justice" than the Department of Defense is about "defense" or Homeland Security is about "security". There is no justice in the USA except more or less by accident.
It is well understood by political scientists (or at least some political scientists) that when a political system fails to provide such "public goods" as a functioning and legitimate justice system, a practical way to change the constitution, and a peaceful and legitimate way to choose one's representatives, that the system is very likely to experience a revolution and that assassination is seen as a legitimate tool of political change. But America has always used assassination for political purposes. See, for example, Huey Long, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, JFK and RFK. Under the circumstances, some would say that the only way to achieve minimum justice and the will of the majority in this country would be to assassinate Trump.
This is the lesson of history. This is the American Way.
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