The norm was to lean over backward to avoid using government power, including the justice
system, against political enemies. Well, that norm has been tossed out the Overton Window and it’s fallen like Hans Gruber from Nakatomi Plaza. If you want to reestablish a norm, you do that by imposing consequences for violating it. No accountability, no norm. The wrongdoers have not earned their forgiveness, and if we give it to them for free, they’re just going to do the same thing again, given the chance. So don’t. Make them pay.
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