Indict
This is the weirdest take on things.
And it could be just the jolt his so-far-lackluster 2024 presidential campaign needs.
By any metric, Trump was the Republican front-runner, pacing ahead of DeSantis with anyone else being someone you have to squint to figure out how they might win. This lands on a concern trolling.
That is Reason. National Review gives its readers, more Trump favorable than they, something of a concern troll. Sure, this indictment is bs, but it does not lend to any credence for Trump and at any rate will lose him support amongst swing voters. Though it does have a counter-veiling opinion in sheer political terms that hits at something.
In sheer political terms, Trump will benefit, at least in the short and medium term, from the attention and Republican sympathy that will come with the indictment. Any further indictments, whatever the merits, will inevitably be discredited to some extent or other by Bragg going first with these dubious charges. There will surely be other, unforeseen consequences, none of which are likely to be good.
The problem is someone will charge forth the same with the other more merit-ful and substantial cases pending against Trump.
The headline for the Nation does its best to de-personalize the crime — Manhattan Court Pursues Florida Man for White-Collar Crime, subline of Donald Trump’s indictment is less a matter of politics than of ruling-class impunity. But his worst crimes won’t be prosecuted in court. Better, and oddly you can couple it with National Review’s sentiment on relative meaning of this in itself.
So. New Republic, addressing the isdue. “Did Trump do worse things? Sure…”. I hasten to suggest this then fails a blind name test — insert other politician and discretion and we get the ” politicized” item. I think it is they, or maybe the Washington Monthly, who also posit the democracy element in this — the people voted for the prosecutor. At least I saw there somewhere in the political opining machinery. Interesting. Again –double blind that one and on that one even if it does pass I would ask what is wrong with you.