The Real Threat to Democracy: Biden Reportedly Wants to Put His Political Opponents in Jail

The oldest trick in the political book is to accuse your opponents of doing what you are actually doing yourself.

Prior to the 2020 election, Biden bragged about interfering in the justice system of Ukraine by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid unless they fired a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, a company on whose board his son Hunter served.

How to defang that prior to the election? Accuse former President Donald Trump of doing something similar - asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to "Dig up dirt" on Biden.

Any thinking person should take with a big grain of salt the drumbeat of accusations by Biden supporters that Trump is somehow a "Threat to democracy." Prior to the 2020 election, an erstwhile friend of mine in Florida told me that he was voting for Biden because "Trump wanted to put all of his political opponents in jail." One searches the internet in vain for any reported case of the Trump administration trying to put any of its political opponents in jail.

The big news is that word has been leaked anonymously to the New York Times that Biden himself wants the Department of Justice to indict Trump.

Putting your political opponents in jail is a really bad idea if you want to preserve a functioning democracy.

Before anyone indicts an ex-president - who is currently the favorite to be the Republican nominee in 2024 and is running well ahead of both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the polls - let's hope that cooler heads prevail and think about the long-term consequences for our democracy if they start the political equivalent of World War III. The result would be mutually assured destruction.
 

https://spectator.org/the-real-threat-to-democracy-biden-reportedly-wants-to-put-his-political-opponents-in-jail/