CORRECTION: I made the ridiculous error of trusting the link, which was to a non-paywalled version of the opinion piece. It listed the author as Krugman, but the original article at the NYT has the author as Pamela Paul. This error is unforgivable and I should have checked. The references were corrected and the original references to Krugman are struck through, to emphasize my error. I take responsibility for it. 

Democrats really don’t believe in the rule of law.

We know this. We see this constantly. They cheer on violence. Elected officials pull bullhorns out and shut down legislatures. They persecute their enemies using the law.

And the best and brightest in the MSM cheer them on because for some reason they claim not doing so supports fascism.

Perhaps they haven’t figured out that this IS fascism?

Paul Krugman Pamela Paul gives yet another example.

Note that "karmic justice" is different from actual justice. That's because "this indictment may not prove to be the rock-solid legal case one might hope it to be." https://t.co/Q8obnU6Zib

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) April 6, 2023

Krugman‘ Paul’s article is perfect, in a way, since it encapsulates exactly what they imagine government should be about: helping your friends and harming your enemies.

Rules? Procedures? Fairness?

They are obstacles to good governance, not requirements for it.

In Plato’s Republic, this definition of justice was held by Polemarchus, one of Socrates’ interlocutors in the discourse. Simply summarized his view was that Justice was “helping your friends and harming your enemies.” Your friends are good because they are your friends, and your enemies are evil because they are your enemies.

You can pretty it up all you want, but that is the Left’s definition of justice. Do unto others before they do unto you.

Krugman’s Paul’s argument is simple: Trump is a bad man, and he deserves whatever he gets. He should be hounded, and hounded by the government most of all.

Everybody should have seen this; his supporters didn’t and don’t, and therefore they are bad too. They deserve whatever they get. A pox on their house.

Ironically many of the accusations against Trump in Krugman‘s Paul’s article could have easily applied to many Democrats. Clinton, for instance, was a crude man. Although he kept it only semi-private, Democrats defended his behavior as “only sex.” Trump’s dalliances, though, which apparently offend Krugman, were unforgivable.

Help your friends and harm your enemies.

But we should be happy that this president was indicted.

Too many years of knowing that Trump’s time in office would deliver on the sleaziness of its promise. Too many years of an endless cycle of revelations and accusations met with impunity have felt like an inconceivable injustice to those of us who continue to believe — against often crushing evidence to the contrary — in the existence of any kind of justice at all. There is, it must be said, a deep satisfaction in knowing that after too many years of suffering through the Trump we got, Trump himself finally has been gotten.

Corruption? Trump is a money-grubber, but there is zero evidence of government corruption against him. Unlike almost every Democrat I could name besides Carter. Krugman Paul doesn’t care a bit about any of that.

Help your friends and harm your enemies.

I could go on, but you get the point: this is actually how Leftists think. Power exists to use, and rules are a distraction. Do whatever you can to do whatever you like.

Using the power of the state to persecute your enemies is just a natural extension of that. Throughout Trump’s term, they have done that, and I could name innumerable examples of illegitimate and often illegal acts by Democrats designed to “get” Trump. Think lying to the FISA court, to start. There are many more examples, but that one goes straight to the abuse of government power with the sole intent of illegitimately and illegally harming one’s opponent.

In this whole, sordid persecution of Donald Trump–for whom I have quite mixed feelings–he is the least likely of the bunch to deserve jail time or even a trial. Comey deserves to be in jail more than Trump. Strzok, Page… Serial lawbreakers. How many illegal leaks did Comey commit?

He is a wealthy man because he broke the law.

Krugman, Paul, though, sees these as her “friends” and thus the good guys. Because they fight his enemy, Trump, who is the bad guy.

Due process? Pish! Better to charge him for an invented and still unspecified crime.

Because justice is nothing more than helping your friends and harming your enemies. All that talk of the Constitution, liberal democracy, and the rule of law?

It’s a distraction.