Your Hurt vs My Republic

For John, BLUF:  What appears to be a Democratic Party sense of hurt feelings with regard to Donald Trump is playing out in DoJ investigations, actions that threaten the sense of one Republic amongst the politicians.  The sense that things are basically fair and one should wait for the next election.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The FBI And DOJ Criminalizing Opposition To The Regime Is How The Republic Ends

Here is the sub-headline:

A two-tier justice system is not a justice system. It is a totalitarian system.  Its purpose is not justice but population control.

From The Federalist, by Ms Joy Pullmann, 8 August 2022.

Here is the lede plus four:

On Thursday, Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder decided it was the time to bring the subtext of the Jan. 6 show trials and related domestic security state activities into the open.

“My guess is that by the end of this process, you’re going to see indictments involving high-level people in the White House, you’re going to see indictments against people outside the White House who were advising them with regard to the attempt to steal the election, and I think ultimately you’re probably going to see the president, former president of the United States indicted as well,” Holder told SiriusXM host Joe Madison.

Holder noted that the U.S. Department of Justice he formerly headed is working with the illegally constituted Jan. 6 Commission towards this goal. We know these entities are also working with the FBI, whose head bit his thumb at congressional oversight repeatedly in a public hearing last week.

i believe Attorney General Eric Holder was, to me, the biggest disappointment of the Obama Administration.  He declared we needed a conversation on race and then failed to lead that conversation.

But, on to the longer term implications of the actions of the Department of Justice and the FBI:

An indictment of former President Donald Trump would be a breathtakingly authoritarian turn. It would amount to the U.S. security state refusing to accept “no” from America’s voters yet again. An indictment would be an unelected and unaccountable federal agency overruling voters’ two-time rejection of impeachment through their elected representatives.

This is the core danger of the administrative state:  Its now open propensity to go rogue. It is apparently hellbent now on turning the United States into a banana republic.

If President Trump turned out to be a modern day Aaron Burr (Former Vice President), then judicial action would be appropriate.  I am doubtful such is the case.  And, in the case of Aaron Burr, to the frustration of President Jefferson, there was no conviction.

I would hate to lose our Republic over the pique of certain Democrat office holders.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff