Throughout my life, no matter who has been in charge of federal or state prosecutions, there have been voices alleging some level of politicization of the law enforcement process.  Mostly, those allegations have been about improper use of government resources to protect those in power, who should be relying on their own private lawyers when their own conduct is at issue.  

But then there is the subject of use of the government’s law enforcement and regulatory authority to harass, disable and convict political opponents of the régime.  Prior to the Trump Derangement Syndrome era, those sorts of abuses had been notably rare during my lifetime.  (That doesn’t mean that they have been unknown during the existence of the United States.  Important examples of prosecutions of political opponents of the incumbent régime since the founding of the Republic include the many prosecutions during the John Adams presidency in 1799-1800 under the Alien and Sedition Acts, the prosecution in 1807 of ex-Vice President Aaron Burr by President Thomas Jefferson, and the prosecution in 1918 of Eugene Debs under President Woodrow Wilson.)

But there is nothing remotely comparable in our history to the diversion of law enforcement resources during the past four years toward the effort to take down the political opponents of the régime.  The most important example by far is, of course, the effort by the Biden Administration, plus Democratic Party prosecutor allies in deep blue cities New York and Atlanta, to convict Donald Trump as a way to prevent him from re-taking the office of President.  I have previously written about that subject, for example here.  

For today I want to focus on treatment during this time period of some others who have appeared to the powers that be to be insufficiently politically correct.