Great piece.

Trump has been convicted of a felony in New York, and you know what that means: a restorative justice circle where he can reflect on his actions and how they harmed the American taxpayer.

I see some folks want to cast anyone critical of this case as a partisan right-winger. That's just not true.

I think Trump is uniquely unfit for office. And *this* prosecution was still unjust, because it was based not on sound law but on animus for the defendant. That's wrong.

Democrats spent the last two weeks arguing that the Supreme Court is broken and irredeemable because Justice Alito flew a revolutionary war flag at his beach house last summer.

Nobody should take these cartoon characters seriously about others “discrediting the justice system.”

This is wrong, it's dangerous, & it's inevitably going to take us to ever-darker places where those of us who believe in clear, written law applied impartially are ever more isolated.

Because I think my vote through & don't just vote my gut, I'm still not voting for Trump. He's still unfit for office. But I gotta say, I'm emotionally closer to voting Trump tonight than I've been in the past nine years of bitterly contesting his influence on my party.

Would any of the Trump prosecutors bring the same charges and make the same arguments against someone they liked? We all know the answer is emphatically no. That's why none of this is a victory for the rule of law and creates terrible precedent moving forward.

I get the value being defended here, but in America, we subject prosecutors to elections & criminal convictions to appellate review. Abusive, lawless prosecutions aren't above criticism even if they get a favorable jury verdict.

Some of us haven't forgotten the reaction to 'lock her up.' As if calling for your opponents to be prosecuted for their actual crimes was, in & of itself, beyond the pale. All memory-holed now.

True but also true that the entire liberal commentariat took the opposite position throughout the 2016 campaign as well as the whole of the 1990s.

Susan Collins. Democrats have no earthly idea how bad they fucked this up.

Literally run by Fidel Castro's kid.

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The progressive choice is clear: There is only one man on the ballot this November who knows what it is like to be a justice impacted individual who was recently evicted from your home

I respect the rule of law and believe we should treat President Trump like any other individual convicted of 34 felonies in New York City: just let him out

I, for one, think it bodes incredibly well for democracy that the 2024 presidential frontrunner was convicted of incorrectly categorizing expenses on the P&L of his family-owned, privately-held company, which resulted in devastating financial harm to… literally not one person.

Megan McArdle I think it is a reasonably principled argument that the DA of a Democratic city should not be charging the Republican presidential nominee with an esoteric crime that nobody has ever been charged with before in an election year.

The correct comparison for the Trump verdict in my view is the Kavanaugh hearings. It seemed to be doing damage and in elite circles it was. But electorally it polarized both sides and reduced the size of an inevitable Democratic wave, costing Ds red state Senators/governorships

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Pretty chilling that a state would so blatantly violate the constitutional rights of a group because of political differences. Unanimous SCOTUS shows how egregious it was.