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People complain that Trump was convicted<\/a> for a crime for which ordinary people would not have been convicted. Even if that’s true (I don’t know), it’s a good<\/em> thing that politicians are held accountable for even tiny crimes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With power comes great responsibility, and the more powerful you are, the more accountable you should be. And if you occupy the top position in the land, then you need to be ground into dust by the courts for even the most trivial crimes. Jaywalking, even! Let politicians live by the same laws that they so casually create for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who knows? If powerful people are targeted for petty crimes, they might even get off their butts and work to change some of the absurd laws the rest of us plebs are tasked with obeying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People complain that Trump was convicted for a crime for which ordinary people would not have been convicted. Even if that’s true (I don’t know), it’s a good thing that politicians are held accountable for even tiny crimes! With power comes great responsibility, and the more powerful you are, the more accountable you should be. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"\n"Lawfare" Against Politicians is Good<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It's good that Trump is being targeted even for so-called "process crimes". 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