{"id":84274,"date":"2023-08-17T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=84274"},"modified":"2023-08-16T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:44:11","slug":"lawfare-as-politics-by-other-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/08\/17\/lawfare-as-politics-by-other-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawfare as politics by other means"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Bray<\/a> explains why getting rid of the Donald Trump candidacy wouldn’t even begin to solve the real problems in US politics today:<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has been charged with crimes, so the Republican Party should drop him as a candidate and move on to someone else who hasn’t been indicted. That’ll solve the problem!<\/p>\n

It won’t. The problem is lawfare. The Republican governor of Wisconsin defeated a recall effort, so Democratic district attorneys launched a long series of predawn raids<\/a> on his supporters \u2014 until the courts made them stop<\/a>. The Republican governor of Texas won four terms, but then was indicted by the office of a Democratic district attorney \u2014 for a budget veto, an action within his constitutional authority. Again, the courts intervened<\/a>, and the legally absurd charges were dismissed.<\/p>\n

Today, scumbag California Assemblyman Evan Low, a uniquely craven publicity chaser even by the local standards<\/a>, proudly announces<\/a> that he’s just introduced a legislative resolution<\/a> calling for the federal government to open a criminal investigation into Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. <\/p>\n

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So. Get rid of Trump and nominate DeSan\u2014 oh, wait. Okay, name someone, anyone: Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, a utility nominee to be named later in exchange for three rookie infielders. Oh no, it turns out that the new nominee is under criminal investigation for [TBD]! As of, uh, tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I have mixed feelings about Donald Trump, who supported pandemic lockdowns and school closures and the rushed development of mRNA injections with limited testing. Dumping him as a candidate because he’s been indicted misses the point. No Republican candidate will run for the presidency without being indicted, unless he’s a court-eunuch Mitt Romney figure, too safe to bother attacking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Bray explains why getting rid of the Donald Trump candidacy wouldn’t even begin to solve the real problems in US politics today: Donald Trump has been charged with crimes, so the Republican Party should drop him as a candidate and move on to someone else who hasn’t been indicted. That’ll solve the problem! It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,53,13],"tags":[768,1037,267,529,806,517,1489],"class_list":["post-84274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-democrat","tag-donaldtrump","tag-justice","tag-lawyers","tag-mittromney","tag-republican","tag-rondesantis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lVg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84276,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84274\/revisions\/84276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}