Republicans’ contempt for law continues with Trump’s indictment

Protestors gather outside the New York County Criminal Courthouse last week before former president Donald Trump was indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. Days before the indictment, Trump had called on supporters to take to the streets in protest. (Getty)

You hear it said in responsible quarters of the right that Democrats are undermining the rule of law by handing up an indictment of Donald Trump. Sure, they acknowledge, Trump has done terrible things, but by bringing this case, Democrats are twisting the law to get at one particular defendant, and that’s not the way things should work.

Further, they argue, Democrats are inviting retaliatory lawsuits in the future and setting America on the path to banana republic status. These abuses, they urge, are just as dangerous, or perhaps more dangerous, than what Republicans are saying and doing in Trump’s defense.