Enacting revenge by jailing Democrats? Sure, under one condition.
One of the right’s most common rhetorical responses to the prosecutions of Donald Trump has been to say something likeat a Friday morning Trump Tower press conference at which he also brought up, for some reason, an accusation that) The idea is to remind conservative voters about the threat of Liberal Big Government Tyranny, and it’s probably an effective way to activate the Republican base even if, as this tweet points out, it doesn’t quite make...
"if they can do it to trump they can do it to you" oh wow I didn't realize that regular ppl could be arrested . good to knowA related idea that has exploded into increased circulation since Thursday’s jury verdict is that Republicans should take revenge for Trump’s conviction by putting Democrats in jail too.
Bush administration lawyer John Yoo is calling for retaliatory prosecutions too, although, as Jonathan Chait points out, Yoo’s argumentfederalism. Every state’s voters should be able to make their own decisions about putting One to 10 Democrats to Be Named Later in the pen. But let’s take these calls with the seriousness they deserve for a minute—i.e., a Friday-afternoon blog post level of seriousness. While it doesn’t seem like it would be fair to put Democrats in jail for literally nothing, perhaps a compromise could be reached of putting any Democrat who’s donein jail.
Namely, Democrats should face retaliatory imprisonment if they made nondisclosure payments to a pornographic actress to prevent her from sharing an allegation of an extramarital affair at a time when such allegations could have been politically damaging, then created fictitious transaction records to hide evidence of the payment.
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