Writes Megan McArdle, in "When the rule of law becomes rule of lawfare/Friday’s Bolton raid and the rebuke of Trump’s $500M fine show what happens when justice is not impartial" (WaPo).
Bad ideas... and they did absolutely nothing to stop Trump. But what if they had stopped Trump? That was the biggest of the ideas, and it might have worked. McArdle asserts that now — now that Trump is back with a vengeance — now we should see that neutral principles are best. If only the lawfare hadn't backfired, it would have been delightful to go on ignoring them.
Delightful for whom? Who are we talking about? Not McArdle herself. She's reporting on what she'd "been hearing" for 10 years. She also says "it was depressing watching so many people on the left thrill to this abusive lawfare." Well, "so many people on the left" think a lot of awful things, including that the so-called "rule of law" is a con.
Did the ordinary liberals of America buy into the fight-fire-with-fire approach? Let them take responsibility, not merely gesture at the "many people on the left." But it's not as though admitting you were wrong now will carry any weight. You played a game of tit for tat and now you're sad that the game continues.
ADDED: Trump plays openly, on Truth Social, just yesterday:
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«সবচেয়ে পুরাতন ‹পুরাতন 201 এর 201 – থেকে 201Ronald J. Ward said:
"My point hasn’t changed: every one of these controversies starts with Trump’s own actions. Seeing him only as the victim flips cause and effect on its head."
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So taking out a loan secured by his properties and paying that loan back with interest, is a predicate for "Tush" James---who ran for office on a platform to "get" Trump--- to go after him for commercial fraud?
And for a rabid judge to fine him $500 million in penalties?
"every single one"............SNORT
You're obviously not up to this "troll" thing, since your positions are so manifestly stupid.
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