Ah, but they’re supposed to do it by magic, don’t you know?

So off the cliff we go.

I don’t think there is any path to fixing this by voting.

Then it is null and void since Trump had full power to declass.

So Trump goes down in a blaze of glory to demonstrate the corruption of the left? Then what? Well, aside from Trump going to jail and Biden going back to the White House.

(Does Trump realize what he has signed up for?)

Jamie: Agree. Well said.

I didn’t read it as “analysis.” I read it as an indictment of the politicization of the law: that when a Democrat does it, shrug, what can we do? Whereas when a Republican does it, he should be locked up and the key melted down.

With a (sometimes) quiet subtext of, “Yes, we know we’re being inconsistent, maybe even hypocritical, but we’re doing it for the Good of the Country and To Save Democracy! You know, like how Capone was finally nailed on tax evasion?”

I’ve been cooling on Trump ever since he entered the race this time, having voting for him twice, grudgingly in 2016 as the R candidate and enthusiastically in 2020 as the guy who presided over a booming economy that was helping the lower two to three quintiles as much as or more than the top two and who made real inroads into reducing the weight of federal regulations and the size of the federal government. Now, I want him to step away and let younger conservatives for whom his example – of fighting – seems to have been inspirational take over. But that this prosecution ought to be spelled “persecution” appears glaringly obvious to me, and the fact that it’s Trump, however hated or derided he may be, being persecuted doesn’t erase our responsibility to hold it up to the light.