Remember who French is, he was a lawyer for the US government. He’s not a journalist. His job is to do public relations for the uniparty. That’s what National Review exists for too.
And if I remember right almost every congressmen and senator is a lawyer and/or past lawyer, There is very few non-lawyers in government, Trump is one of them, no wonder the uniparty hates Trump and Roy Moore, even though Roy Moore he is a lawyer himself but not of the same unethical type of lawyer cloth.