When a leading Post critic of Trump concedes that reasonable people can think justice wasn’t done in the New York hush-money trial, you can be pretty sure that justice wasn’t done and that, in fact, the case was garbage.
But [Ruth] Marcus has an ulterior motive for this concession. She’s clearing the way for an attack on those who, as a result of the obvious injustice of the New York prosecution and verdict, want revenge-prosecutions of Democrats.
Marcus understands what many Democrats don’t seem to grasp (or just don’t worry about) — that when they discard norms, Republicans are likely to respond in kind.
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