Their zealotry helped turn the president who had left office in a cloud of shame into a figure of some pity with an excessively vengeful campaign of criminal and civil litigation aimed not only at harming his political and business prospects but at sending him to prison for the rest of his life—a campaign that backfired spectacularly and damaged trust in the idea of an independent judiciary.
They deceived the country for 3½ years about the fitness for office of the cognitively failing president. For all their talk about the threat their opponents pose to democracy, we have yet to learn how much the presidency has been run by an unelected cadre of people competing for power around an increasingly catatonic figurehead.
When the truth about Mr. Biden’s health was finally exposed, they thought they could simply swap him out for someone who hadn’t been tested in electoral competition. Anyone questioning her credentials and abilities was denounced as racist or sexist. And now their plan is to have the voters bail them out of all this misgovernance by insisting that the only alternative is totalitarian terror. Will we really make that bargain?
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