The U.S. has had many miscarriages of justice, but they were almost exclusively the work of isolated individuals (prosecutors, lab technicians, poor defense lawyers, and judges).
Americans realize that justice is not perfect.
Four separate but contemporaneous criminal trials (all instigated by Democrats), many of the charges seemingly a stretch, against a man who has a very good chance of becoming president smacks of banana republic, not justice.
Society survives because of a compact between citizens to follow a certain set of rules. If these rules are broken - especially by the ruling party - Americans start to question the value of that compact.
Right now, perhaps 40% of Americans question the justice of these criminal charges. That is a huge percentage (Eugene Dobbs at his peak got 6% of the vote).
But worse than that, are the thinking Democrats (yes, I know), who understand the situation, and willingly allow the degradation of our justice system in order to bring down a man that they perceive as a tyrant.
Moral expediency is corrosive.
Once moral expediency is normalized society is on the down slope. Imagine how many Republicans are dreaming of regaining power and payback.
But once moral expediency becomes the societal norm, ordinary Americans will question the social compact that rules our country.
That is the real cost of what the Democrats are doing.
I must disagree with you on two points: that Stephanie Clifford, aka “Stormy Daniels,” is “lovely and talented.”
To be fair, I can’t account for her talent, having never seen her, uh, body of work.
But lovely? Hard pass on that. Audrey Hepburn, even in her later years, was the image of grace and beauty. Stormy, on the other hand, reminds me of something my late father-in-law would say: “She looks like she was rode hard and put up wet.” He was referring to horses, but in her case it’s probably literal.
The U.S. has had many miscarriages of justice, but they were almost exclusively the work of isolated individuals (prosecutors, lab technicians, poor defense lawyers, and judges).
Americans realize that justice is not perfect.
Four separate but contemporaneous criminal trials (all instigated by Democrats), many of the charges seemingly a stretch, against a man who has a very good chance of becoming president smacks of banana republic, not justice.
Society survives because of a compact between citizens to follow a certain set of rules. If these rules are broken - especially by the ruling party - Americans start to question the value of that compact.
Right now, perhaps 40% of Americans question the justice of these criminal charges. That is a huge percentage (Eugene Dobbs at his peak got 6% of the vote).
But worse than that, are the thinking Democrats (yes, I know), who understand the situation, and willingly allow the degradation of our justice system in order to bring down a man that they perceive as a tyrant.
Moral expediency is corrosive.
Once moral expediency is normalized society is on the down slope. Imagine how many Republicans are dreaming of regaining power and payback.
But once moral expediency becomes the societal norm, ordinary Americans will question the social compact that rules our country.
That is the real cost of what the Democrats are doing.
I must disagree with you on two points: that Stephanie Clifford, aka “Stormy Daniels,” is “lovely and talented.”
To be fair, I can’t account for her talent, having never seen her, uh, body of work.
But lovely? Hard pass on that. Audrey Hepburn, even in her later years, was the image of grace and beauty. Stormy, on the other hand, reminds me of something my late father-in-law would say: “She looks like she was rode hard and put up wet.” He was referring to horses, but in her case it’s probably literal.