We Don't Believe You

David French, maybe National Review's most reliably wrong scribe, issued this gem in response to the FBI raid on Donald Trump's residence in Florida:

• Imagine thinking federal police agents and lawyers will be "held accountable," or that presidents are not above the law! Is this an afterschool special?
• We are not required to take a combatant's claims at face value, blundering ahead like Lucan and Cardigan at Balaclava.
• The Trump era, enhanced by the perverse dopamine incentives of social media, took this disbelief and distrust to a new rhetorical level. Any political statement made today, by any politician or candidate or public official, can be answered thus: "We don't believe you."

Decent people can and should resist a world organized around politics

• Ordinary Americans don't want to live political lives and have their personal and professional relationships defined by this terrible environment.
• So we arm ourselves with a clear-eyed worldview, put away childish things, and never accept political pronouncements at face value

https://mises.org/wire/we-dont-believe-you