The contemporary American Left is willing to go full scorched earth to win every tactical advantage, without thinking about the long-term consequences of the precedents that their “victories” will establish. This is especially a problem with the lawfare that they have chosen to wage, in which every outcome necessarily sets up a principle that can be invoked later on, in other contexts, by other actors, and for entirely different purposes than the ones the Left is trying to accomplish. This heedlessness is evident these days not only in their uncritical celebration of Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York bookkeeping case, but also in their denunciations of Trump’s argument for presidential immunity in the context of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s effort to prosecute the former president for actions relating to the events of January 6, 2021.
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