During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he would be turning things upside down, and he has kept his promises. All one has to do is to read the latest edition of the New York Times to see how the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is responding: rage, rage, and more rage, as the following editorial declares:
President Trump’s determination to bend the American justice system to his will, combined with his broad tolerance for political corruption and his abhorrence of checks and balances on his power, slammed hard last week into the commitment to duty, honor and the rule of law shared by a group of federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and Washington, D.C. The confrontation between Mr. Trump’s lieutenants at the Justice Department — led by his former personal defense lawyer Emil Bove III — and Manhattan’s interim U.S. attorney, Danielle Sassoon, and her colleagues is the clearest example yet of this administration’s efforts to bake quid pro quo deal making, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government and warp its long-held principle of equal justice before the law.
The editorial goes on to describe the federal law enforcement apparatus as something one might see on the FBI shows that dominate the CBS network Tuesday nights. That FBI is one in which all agents are impervious to corruption and are crack investigators and crime solvers who rescue the victims of capitalism and white supremacy in the nick of time. However, the real FBI hardly matches the hagiographic portrayal given to it on network TV.
However, the notion that federal prosecutors and FBI agents represent a higher class of people who hold a special kind of honor is better reserved for TV shows created by Dick Wolf. This is not the case of the good guys purging the bad guys as much as it is a political massacre that probably needs to happen, given how the federal criminal apparatus has turned into a monster that can only be brought to heel by someone using the nuclear option.
Yes, Trump and his cohort are cleaning out the detritus from the DOJ and FBI at an astonishing rate. It is about time, too!! They have been used much the same as the NKVD and GRU on the opposition party in power to the Democrats and progressive/lefty/collectivist/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderers. They did everything they could to stop Trumps return and now Trump is going to return everything they did. This is the life of politics: violence and coercion and not the life of the market: volunteerism and choice.