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Only Prosecutions Can End Dems’ DOJ Weaponization,
But Media Pretend That’s Not Obvious
By ‘ending weaponization,’ the media mean Trump’s DOJ should do nothing about years of Democrat lawfare,
until Democrats can return to do it again.
until Democrats can return to do it again.
Only Prosecutions Will End DOJ Abuse, As Media Pretend Otherwise
By 'ending weaponization,' the media mean Trump's DOJ should do nothing about years of Democrat lawfare, until Democrats can do it again.
thefederalist.com
It used to be understood, before we started rewarding lawbreakers with goodies like birthplace citizenship, that punishing bad guys was the most effective way to stop bad actions. The best way to drop the murder rate, for example, is to swiftly and justly execute murderers.
For the same reason, the best way to end the political weaponization of the bureaucracy is to punish the weaponizers. As long as the architects of the most infamous abuses — from the Russia collusion hoax to the Biden DOJ effort to throw its political opposition in prison — escape accountability, new partisans will be emboldened to abuse their prosecutorial power for political ends.
The role of consequences as deterrent is obvious to any disciplined child. It’s obvious to members of the American public who want to see the likes of James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith held accountable for their war on the rule of law. It’s so obvious, in fact, that the corporate press feels compelled to work very hard to pretend that’s not the case.
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The media’s definition of “ending weaponization” is having the Trump DOJ do absolutely nothing about the decade of the Obama and Biden DOJ’s partisan lawfare, until Democrats can take over and start doing it again. The one thing they don’t want the Trump DOJ to do is actually take the steps required to hold the serial weaponizers accountable. When the media talk about “ending weaponization,” they mean the exact opposite.
It’s the same playbook they use to guilt Republicans into being useless on deportations. Democrats can blow up our immigration laws all they want, but if Trump tries to fix it, he’s not allowed, because norms. The only approach acceptable to the media is that he do nothing until Democrats can take control.
The media didn’t just turn a blind eye to the weaponization; they actively aided the attempts to deploy the government against Trump and his allies. When the Clinton campaign and the Obama intelligence apparatus launched the Russia collusion hoax, it was the media that helped launder the false narrative to the public. When the Biden FBI raided the home of a pro-life father and dragged him away in handcuffs in front of his children, the corporate press buried the story. When the Biden DOJ attempted to chill the speech of concerned parents by falsely associating their concerns about school boards with “domestic terrorism,” the media either ignored the scandal or framed it as “Republicans pouncing.” When the department and its associates raided Trump’s personal home, made him sit for a mugshot, dragged him into a courtroom, and tried to imprison him, the media worked to legitimize the false narratives on which the prosecutions were based.
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As Rachel Bovard noted recently, “There are only three reasons politicos respect norms and abide by the Constitution: duty, religion, and fear. Among Democrat elites today, the first two are obsolete.” The only thing that will stop the next Crossfire Hurricane or the next Arctic Frost from targeting untold opponents of the American left with character assassination, financial ruin, privacy invasions, and even prison is the fear of just penalties for such corruption. Those just penalties aren’t weaponization, they’re its antidote.
But the media don’t actually want to end weaponization, because they have been in on it from the beginning. Their tattered reputations hang on maintaining the illusion that the real problem is not the abuse of power but the use of power to stop it.
Commentary:
Those that orchestrated the Russian Collusion conspiracy, the spying on Trump and associates, the J6 prosecution, the Mar a Lago raid, etc must pay a price for their crimes. There has to be arrests or this nation will not survive.
Many will say courts will stop them, but activist hack judges will do as they wish since they have no respect or loyalty to the Constitution and no one will attempt to stop them.
If action is not taken during Trump's presidency, not only will the left do the same again, but what they do will be ten times worse. People laugh at the Georgia Democrat candidate who says conservatives' punishment for electing Trump will be four years without internet access, but she is deadly serious. Not only will the try to do that, they will have no problem in locking up Trump, his family, and his cabinet members, and they will relish putting his supporters in re-education camps.
