The principle of Occam’s Razor allows that the simplest explanation is usually the right one. We have four criminal cases — all pursued in an election year against a presidential candidate who’s leading in the polls. From the smallest step back, this appears to be political defenestration through the courts. Many Democrats believe passionately in Trump’s guilt in each instance and yearn to see their lawless nemesis behind bars. Nevertheless, if it looks like a duck…
Democrats are so blinded by their own goodness that they fail to grasp how badly this lawfare strategy could backfire. Many Americans are disillusioned with their country’s institutions, including the justice system. Democrats counting on the fatal opprobrium that ought to attach to a candidate who’s “a convicted felon” are living in the Dragnet world of the 1950s.
Comments such as this one on Taibbi’s Substack are all over the internet: “I loathe Trump and I have volunteered for RFK Jr, but last night I considered voting for Donald for the first time. Hell, even my super lib wife wants to vote for him solely because she hates the Dems more than she hates Trump now.”
Democrats have a serious ends-means problem. But you cannot save democracy by destroying it. Think: nose, spite, face.
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