Politics has always been a nasty business. Mark Antony had Cicero’s head and hands nailed to the Rostra in Rome’s Forum. Leon Trotsky fled to Mexico to escape Stalin but ended up with an ice axe in his brain. American politics haven’t gotten quite to that level – yet.
But there are those who see how dirty the Democrats are willing to play just now, and putting forth the idea that what is going around should be coming around.
…[T]the Democrat effort to criminalize their political enemies has reached its climax in 2023. Republicans have sat and watched as four separate indictments have come down from three separate prosecutors, all with the same purpose: imprisoning Donald Trump and as many of his political allies as they can get away with. Monday’s indictment out of Fulton County, Georgia, is the most extreme yet, seeking to ensnare not just Trump but 18 of his associates for the “crime” of contesting the 2020 election through the courts and legislative process.
The goal of all these indictments is simple: rig the 2024 election in the court system before a single ballot can even be cast, and criminalize the MAGA political movement Trump has built.
It has, apparently, come to this.
Sure, it would be preferable if American national politics was the sane, measured, collegial process it has been since… well, never. But this use of lawfare is something rather new. And there’s an argument to be made here, namely that the GOP needs to apply a little sauce to the goose.
Nobody should want to see this happen. But neither should anyone be willing to have the GOP just sit back and let the Left walk all over them, dragging them into court on phony indictments and making them spend small fortunes defending themselves against bull leavings.
Time for a new party….I left the GOP last week and am now officially independent until a MAGA party is officially formed….