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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Or DOJ? Once the rule of law is undermined, we'll just restore it in two years?
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The rule of law we had was capricious, arbitrary, and corrupted in a number of ways (directives that people like Martha Stewart should be targeted for "deterrence value," a Byzantine criminal and civil code that slants everything in the govt's favor, an often in-the-govt's-pocket judiciary, politics w/in the offices that create careerist nihilist AUSAs who only care about wins vs. losses, political influence of exec branch so that DOJ focuses on their pet issues, etc.).
Trump will not improve this, of course. He'll just render it differently corrupt. More unapologetically bent is my guess.
I agree his politicization of the department is awful. But mostly because it's so overt. The prior subtle corruption was defensible, could be hidden, and wasn't extreme. He'll alter that minimized silk stocking corruption into something more like mafioso all-day-every-day in-your-face corruption.
