Dear Trump Critics: Keep It Up
It’s especially vital for members of his party to denounce his attacks on the rule of law. Plus, Jonathan Bernstein’s morning links.
Stay focused.
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I was going to write about something else coming off a holiday weekend, but sometimes the main news is too important to ignore — such as when the president of the United States flatly states that he believes government prosecutions should be run for the benefit of his party:
The truth is that Donald Trump demonstrated he was unfit for the presidency when he allowed chants of “Lock her up” to break out at the Republican National Convention two years ago. And everyone within the Republican Party who has encouraged, or even tolerated, a partisan lynch-mob mentality has showed themselves to be unfit for office as well. It’s not a small step from urging the imprisonment of political enemies to believing that political allies should be immune from prosecution — it’s no step at all. It’s exactly the same undemocratic authoritarian impulse.