The Post-Partisan Emporium

Donald J. Trump, folk hero Great job, Dems! My misgivings about the man himself will be placed on the back burner. His fate and the nation’s are now inextricably linked. JENNY HOLLAND I’m going to attempt to explain my complicated feelings regarding our once and possible future president, Donald J. Trump. I don’t really want to, because whenever I watch the get-Trump circus or the man himself, I always feel like I’m getting played. We are in an information war and the hottest theatre of that war centres around Trump. It makes me extremely reluctant to commit to any position publicly. But this week’s indictment of him is so crazy, such a five alarm fire, that I’m going to force myself to write about it. Of all the essays I have sent out on Substack, this may be the most raw and the most difficult for me to write. It does not answer any questions, it only asks them.  When Trump won the 2016 election, I was very upset and incredulous. As crazy as I knew US politics to be, I couldn’t q...

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Don't Miss the American Precedent for the Trump Indictments CHRIS BRAY There’s a whole lot of  this sentiment  on social media this morning, and I agree with it entirely: But also  read this . It’s important, and it’ll take you three minutes. Click on that link and read. You’ll see the point with every paragraph. There are American precedents for the shameful acts of disgusting political lawfare being directed against Donald Trump (and his lawyers and political staff), and the most obvious  and extremely telling  precedent is the behavior of Federalists during the Adams administration. The Sedition Act of 1798 made criticism of the federal government a crime, on a comparable construction of the idea of “disinformation” that’s now used as a repressive tool: the law forbade “any false, scandalous, and malicious writing” about the government, subjective terms that in practice opened the prison doors to mere disagreement and ordinary political criticism. Federalists...