Wreck and Ruin of Anti-Trump Lawfare

With the criminal indictment of New York Attorney General (NYAG) Letitia James following upon the indictment of former FBI director James Comey, it should be beyond dispute that the Biden-era lawfare campaign against Donald Trump was both a huge electoral failure and a disaster for American civics. Like the Salem witch trials, the march to the Civil War, Japanese internment, and other dark periods in our history, this whole era will be studied as a form of madness that its inhabitants should have seen as such but could not resist.

Democrats made those choices and are living with the consequences, which were predictable and are now out of their control — just as Trump and his team are now making their own choices, which will have consequences that are predictable and will sooner or later be out of their control. The consequence is a downward spiral that will be hard to stop and will take years to repair.

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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With the criminal indictment of New York Attorney General (NYAG) Letitia James following upon the indictment of former FBI director James Comey, it should be beyond dispute that the Biden-era lawfare campaign against Donald Trump was both a huge electoral failure and a disaster for American civics. Like the Salem witch trials, the march to the Civil War, Japanese internment, and other dark periods in our history, this whole era will be studied as a form of madness that its inhabitants should have seen as such but could not resist.

Democrats made those choices and are living with the consequences, which were predictable and are now out of their control — just as Trump and his team are now making their own choices, which will have consequences that are predictable and will sooner or later be out of their control. The consequence is a downward spiral that will be hard to stop and will take years to repair.