Another Rubicon is Crossed
The US media is not supposed to act as a propaganda arm for a political party. But progressives decided that because Donald Trump was such a danger to “democracy”, throwing away journalistic integrity became a moral imperative to stop him. I have already covered the depths that our legacy media has sunk to at length (see here and here for examples.) While “getting Trump” was the supposed catalyst, it was always clear that once the media crossed the Rubicon from informing to propagandizing, they would never be able to go back again. And going on 2 1/2 years after Trump left office, that is proving to be the case. We now have a permanent propaganda arm for the Democrat Party in control of the media regardless of which party is in power.
Now another new and even more frightening Rubicon has been crossed by progressives. They remain obsessed with taking down Trump once and for all. And also in justifying their 4 years of psychotic ravings and baseless persecutions. One of America’s core values is the belief that justice should be blind. That all citizens should be treated equally under the law. Democrats and progressives are now throwing away that fundamental value to destroy the Bad Orange Man. The media almost couldn’t contain their glee when the NY DA built up a bogus case against the former President. You could hear the smug satisfaction in their voices as they repeated “Trump is the first President ever to be indicted” over and over again ad nauseum. The Mueller investigation turned out to be a big nothing burger. The quid-pro-quo with Zelensky fell flat. The 2nd impeachment was such a sham, the SCOTUS refused to even participate. After looking like fools so many times, leftists now feel like they are finally vindicated.
Show me the man, and I will find you the crime.
-Lavrentiy Beria, head of Stalin’s secret police
But at what cost? To get their sham indictment, Democrats had to weaponize the American justice system. Nobody, and I mean nobody, believes this case would ever have been brought against anybody but Donald Trump. So it is now in bounds to attack one’s political enemies using the justice system. Democrats will try and argue that Trump is a special case. They will say that Donald Trump is a singularly egregious threat to democracy itself. And thus, his political persecution is justified and will be a one time event.
But that isn’t how things work. Once the precedent has been set that “really really bad” people can be targeted by the justice system, those in power will always find those that challenge their power to be “really really bad.” This is a genie that can not be put back in the bottle. And it is a sad day indeed for Liberty and Justice.