New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait, writing today in the magazine's Intelligencer section. The conclusion:
"What’s unusual about Trump is not that a politician got into legal trouble, or even that a professional scammer went into politics, but that a political party allowed a crook to rise to its top. That, in turn, reveals the deeply unhealthy state of the GOP, not any extralegal steps being taken by his opponents.
Before he won the Republican nomination the first time, Republicans were perfectly aware that his decades of bilking customers and counterparties, lying to everybody, and surrounding himself with known criminals posed a series legal risk. Now that that risk has gone from theoretical to actual, and it is being shared by the Republican Party, they seem to believe it’s not fair to hold him legally accountable.
But no plot was necessary here. The law finally catching up to a lifelong crook is utterly predictable." (our emphasis)
Please read Chait's entire article, which documents the initial revulsion with the Malignant Loser by his now-captive party, knowing that he was deeply corrupt, and how they are now standing with him and repeating his lie that the Biden Administration / "deep state" is fighting him through "lawfare," using law to improperly persecute opponents.
