The Big Thing
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1945 asked me to contribute some thoughts on the whole legal situation…
Unfortunately, the GOP’s overall response to Donald Trump has been characterized by the utter cowardice of its elite class and the extremism and perfidy of its base. The base loves Trump, and is indifferent to his crimes as long as he hates the same people that they hate.
The political class hates Trump but is terrified of his relationship with the base, and long ago decided that it was better to be inside the tent than out. Unsurprisingly, few of Trump’s 2024 opponents have acknowledged that the indictments represent serious charges of abuse of power on the part of the former President. Instead, most have simply denounced the prosecutors, secretly hoping that Trump will be destroyed while publicly bemoaning “politicized” prosecutions.