Jenkins: Now Lawfare Engulfs the Fed

Yes, the Democrats started it--or at least elevated it to all-out war...all-out lawfare, anyway.

   They're proud of it. (Not that important, but: one of their longstanding legal/political blogs is called Lawfare.)

   Has Trump made it worse?

   Well, he seems to have made it more blatant...which is one way of being worse...

   Anyway, to me, having only the superficial knowledge of a somewhat-more-than casual reader of the news, that he has made it worse. It used to at least be kind of on the DL. And the people doing it openly/blatantly were state-level figures like the loathsome Letitia James, and the also loathsome Alvin Bragg... But it seems to have gone federal* under Trump.

   There was a red-team talking-point recently...I think even repeated by Vance. Went like this: we shouldn't refrain from doing things because we fear the Dems might to them to use in the future...because they're going to do them to us anyway...

   Sadly, that point makes a lot of sense.

   The Pubs still probably haven't done anything that can hold a candle to Russiagate...yet, anyway...

   I'd prefer for the team I currently support to be at least slightly more on the side of reason and justice than the other guys...but Trump seems to think that's a losing strategy... And he's fairly likely to be right.

   So anyway...here we are...

* Yes, I, too, dislike this misuse of the 'federal.' I'm using it here anyway.