Posted on 02/14/2025 7:31:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump loves to take a phrase and drain it of all meaning. In his first term, he transformed the term "fake news" from describing a specific problem with a type of misinformation into an attack on any journalist he didn't like or a piece of journalism that made him look bad.
Now he's doing the same to the word "lawfare," and the stakes are even higher — including, potentially, the guardrails of our democracy.
Coined in 2001, "lawfare" refers to the use of courts and other legal systems to damage or delegitimize a political opponent. After Trump left office four years ago, he began using lawfare incorrectly to describe the various criminal cases he was embroiled in due to paying hush money, allegedly trying to overturn an election and allegedly mishandling classified documents.
Let’s be clear: courts can only consider the cases brought before them. Democratic attorneys general and nonprofits are not filing these lawsuits to hurt Trump. Judges (including Republican appointees) are not ruling against Trump out of personal animus, but because they want to slow things down. It’s not lawfare, as Trump would have you believe. It’s the law, applied fairly.
But what happens if Trump's supporters believe his claims? After all, we watched with our own eyes as he convinced millions of our fellow Americans that the 2020 election was rigged without a shred of good evidence. If he can undermine the legitimacy of our elections, who's to say that he can't do the same with our courts?
And therein lies the crisis we'll soon be facing. The most powerful man in the world is attacking the system of laws he's sworn to uphold. The real lawfare right now is one that Trump is waging against the courts, and that should concern all of us.
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“President Donald Trump loves to take a phrase and drain it of all meaning.”
Yeah... that’s really bad ‘cuz the Left never does that kind of thing.
This is parody, right??
Practically everything we see in politics today is a reaction to things that have been done by the Democrats. You have to react or whatever they did stands.
Wow, it’s early in the morning here on the West Coast and already I’ve read the “Steaming Pantload of the Day” award-winning article.
SNL Anniversary skit
Someone forgot to listen to Thomas More's advice...
More traitorous propaganda from the democrat media.
It’s MSNBC. Treat their stuff like used toilet paper.
So Trump’s not abusing the constitution properly.
They should know, they are experts at it.
“good evidence”
LOL, what happened to just, evidence? Couldn’t pull off that lie any more?
Thought I was reading The Bee!
Suddenly MSNBC is in love with the US Constitution. I thought it was an obsolete document authored by dead white male slaveholders.
Had to check it out. Sanders-Townsend is another Pressley skinhead with a small brain and a big mouth. Works for PMSNBC.
Which is normal for the left.
Courts are supposed to be temperate, where people compare the moment to long-held statute and precedent.
We are descending into intemperance, where scripture forecasts that the final bad guy will be called the man of lawlessness.
“including, potentially, the guardrails of >>our democracy<<.” [my edit]
The Legacy Media, benefactors of a Capitalist market in a Constitutional republic established by the “rule of law” once again...
...attempts to defend THEIR democracy.
Throughout history, Democracy has failed every time it was tried.
#TyrannyOfTheWolf
I read these daily media hit pieces on Trump happily knowing he has the entire American left scared out of their minds.
The sooner MSNBC and CNN cease to exist, the better.
Who isn’t mad when they realize they’ve been outsmarted?
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