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Persecuted Innocent or Serial Offender?
Roughly a third of all Americans think the Democratic Party and its fellow travelers are “out to get” Donald Trump, and have been ever since he became the presumptive Republican nominee in the summer of 2016. Might they actually be right?
The answer may surprise you.
To get there, I’m going to begin this week’s post by asking you to do something very bizarre and difficult and potentially unpleasant, and that is to put yourself into the mindset of a Trump supporter.
Imagine, in this persona, that you have tuned in to MSNBC or CNN — just for shits and grins — and all you see and hear is excited conversation about all the laws Trump broke in taking US government information to Mar-a-Lago, and speculation about him being charged and prosecuted for those actions, and pontification about how terrible he is, and unabashed glee at the prospect that this might be his comeuppance at last. In other words, coverage that sounds very much like what you heard on those channels during the Russiagate inquiry, or his first impeachment over the Ukraine scandal, or the fallout from the January 6th and his second impeachment over that scandal.
Full disclosure: I myself am a steady consumer of that very coverage. (On MSNBC, to be precise; I have little use for CNN.) I find it, for the most part, quite accurate and…
