The Mar-a-Lago raid brings the United States a step closer to civil war
have all convicted former leaders. But none of those other countries had court systems in the middle of a legitimacy crisis as the U.S. Supreme Court is now. The country is a complex cascading system. Nobody, on either side, believes that any American legal entity is above politics any more. Once elected, the other side will feel completely entitled to use the DOJ as their weapon.
And it’s not just some high-minded question of principle at stake. The American right is watching what the FBI is willing to do. The Trump years demonstrated that nothing is stable in American politics; the line of acceptable behaviour shifts often and unpredictably. They are learning in real time what the standards are now, what the rules of the game will be.
The U.S. has come to the point where it no longer has good options. If the DOJ doesn’t indict Mr. Trump, they risk destroying the rule of law. If they do indict Mr. Trump, they risk destroying the country. Among marriage counsellors, there’s an old piece of wisdom phrased as a question: “Would you rather be right or be married?” But the truth is there are times to be right rather than married. This may well be one of them.
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