Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour

Jonathan Chait: “When Republicans find themselves unable to defend something Donald Trump has done, they tend to look for a way to turn the blame onto his opponents. So it is with the president’s prosecutorial rampage against his enemies.”

“The anti-anti-Trump right has declared that, although a series of vindictive charges against the likes of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James may be regrettable, Democrats brought it on themselves…”

“This attempt to rationalize Trump’s push to lock up his enemies as payback suffers from two enormous flaws. The first involves the space-time continuum. Trump spent his first term desperately looking for ways to prosecute or otherwise harm his adversaries…”

“The second problem with the karma theory is that it accepts at face value Trump’s claim that he was a victim of lawfare. Trump was no victim of the legal system. If anything, he received preferential treatment.”