It doesn’t feel like that to me. “Instinctively knows” = “Many people are saying…”
… because they feel like these things are true. These feelings are not based in fact, in reality. They are at best misled, at worst outright lying.
Inaction has the same result as explicit permission.
The entire point of his statement is that there is judicial action being taken already and he thinks it’s a problem. Likewise, Trump is trying to stop lawyers from participating in legal action against his regime too. Certainly, some of the people that SHOULD be acting against him are not, and that is a problem. But the fact Jim is making these statements that we are talking about is antithetical to the notion that nobody is taking action and, thus, giving him permission.
It doesn’t feel like that to me. “Instinctively knows” = “Many people are saying…”
Inaction has the same result as explicit permission.
… because they feel like these things are true. These feelings are not based in fact, in reality. They are at best misled, at worst outright lying.
The entire point of his statement is that there is judicial action being taken already and he thinks it’s a problem. Likewise, Trump is trying to stop lawyers from participating in legal action against his regime too. Certainly, some of the people that SHOULD be acting against him are not, and that is a problem. But the fact Jim is making these statements that we are talking about is antithetical to the notion that nobody is taking action and, thus, giving him permission.