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The Washington Post started out as “democracy dies in darkness” and ended up with an editorial board signed editorial admitting that the abuses under Biden led to all this. The headline is confusing and misleading, with the absurd subheader, “Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward”, but the admissions in the editorial are a significant breach in the walls of the echo chamber.
Anyone surprised by the news that former special counsel Jack Smith collected the private phone records of eight Republican senators as part of his investigation into President Donald Trump was not paying attention to the prosecutor’s hardball methods. Many Democrats still cannot see how their legal aggression against Trump during his four years out of power set the stage for the dangerous revenge tour on which he is now embarked…
The current rage over Grassley’s revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump’s ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.
The editorial proposes an eventual ‘legal peace’ treaty.
It might feel satisfying for some people to watch their opponents get perp walked, but what goes around often comes around. A spiral of four-year revenge cycles is a recipe for the decline of a republic. Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward. Lawfare, like warfare, has unpredictable logic. Total victory is impossible in such a divided country. Eventually, one or both sides will need to start negotiating the terms of a legal peace.
I don’t need to tell you that the side proposing peace talks is not the one holding the stronger cards.
After eight years of cheering on Trump lawfare as the saving of the republic, the Washington Post has suddenly decided that prosecuting your political opponents is a bad idea. Much like the sudden calls for unity after Butler and Charlie Kirk’s assassination, there’s every reason to be skeptical of these rapid and rapidly passing revelations. But it does show what it takes to even begin to break through the fanatical mindset that led to the Mueller and Jack Smith vendettas.
Jackoff Smith needs to be butt rammed to death. He’d probably go out with a smile.
Did you ever see the movie “All the President’s Men”? That started it all, or part of it at least 🙂
Yes. They really did Blob Woodward a favor by casting Robert Redford as him. Negro, please. Dustin Hoffman, not so much. He’s always been a character actor, not a leading man.
Proven already in Ancient Rome.
Once they’ve managed to get enough of the biggest of the swamp things they need to go after the media figures who were playing fast and loose with politics as well.
The one common denominator in all of Trump’s words and actions is a total rejection of the church lady behavior that has governed the GOP for decades.
Trump refuses the “two wrongs don’t make a right” mindset and is not willing to extend an olive branch to those who will never support him anyway.
This is the reason his own party hates him. Before he emerged, they were happy to stay in their place as docile saps ruled by the Democrats.
This is hilarious. The Washington Post is basically begging for mercy, like the bully that spent years pounding on helpless kids gets punched in the nose once and suddenly decides fighting is wrong. Their pleas fall on deaf ears. If a democrat were to be elected in ’28 they would go right back to persecuting their political enemies and the Washington Post would gleefully cheerlead and repeat and amplify every leak and every lie the democrats feed them.
Like the rest of the M.S. Media like the New York Slimes the Washington Compost has its panties in a bind