When they separate undocumented children from their families in the first Trump term and did not bother to leave a paper trail so that these families could be reunited so it would take years if ever for these children to be returned to their parents, not one person in the entire chain of command was punished for it. When there are zero consequences for doing wrong, we should not be surprised the wrong doing continues. Same with Bush Jr using private servers to hide his administration's emails - now every GOP administration is going to use this tactic with whatever technology permits it like Signal is being used to bypass laws for record keeping today because no one holds them to account and no one will.
America has a bad track record of punishing leaders we elected who betray our values. There's some history as to why... But this experiment in democracy may not be able to continue to survive practice of that particular tradition.
It will make the office less desirable if people know that bad choices could send them to prison. That's probably okay. Hundreds of millions of people, surely we can find someone brave enough to still take the government roles knowing that once they leave office, it could be into a prison cell if they fuck up.
