Trump Lawfare Update / Progressive-Left Totalitarianism

Byron York summarizes the lawfare campaign against Trump.

The use of lawfare/the courts against its political enemies is an aspect of the progressive left's totalitarianism. The ideology that's seized the left holds, in effect, that its ends are so important and so obviously right that it is justified in advancing them by any means necessary. Liberals, when we had them, recognized that the courts should not be used for partisan ends, that free speech protections should be content neutral, that the aim of schools was to educate children and of universities to research and transmit knowledge--not to advance ideology. All of these were to be kept, to the extent possible, isolated from politics. 

   That's all over now.

   The antiliberal progressive left sees everything as a legitimate weapon in its war against the infidel. The media can legitimately be turned into a propaganda machine. Similarly schools and universities. The goal of the bureaucracy is advancing The Cause. Lawfare is just politics by other means. Everything is...

   None of this should be much of a surprise--and not merely because we're used to it by now. 

   Rather: the left has told us who it is. Its intellectuals have been proclaiming that everything is political for decades now. (Most notably: the personal is political.) They've clearly said that they don't believe in objectivity--how can it be a surprise that they make so little effort to be objective? The leftmost sectors of the left simply do not recognize any such obligations independent of that to advance their ideology. Even the lives of children are not sacrosanct. Children are merely means to the great end...

   You can, of course, point out that the centerward sectors of the left don't really believe such things--and that would be true. But it's the leftmost sectors that set the left's agenda--and they do believe such things. And the centermost sectors just follow along docilely. No enemies to the left. The right is always worse. No matter what the left does, the right is always worse. That's an axiom, not an observation.