D.C. Where Democracy Goes to Die?

Lavernty Beria (Лавре́нтий Бе́рия, 1899-1953) The U.S. Justice Department is out of line. Last year , we talked about how wrong it is for conservative commentators to compare Biden’s Justice Department to a “Banana Republic” operation. The current situation is more serious than bananas in Honduras. At the outset of World War I (1914-18), Imperial Germany launched a surprise invasion of neutral Belgium to get to France. German generals responded to unexpected Belgian resistance with terror, killing innocent civilian men, priests, women, and children. The Allies branded the executions the “ Rape of Belgium .” Stories of innocent Belgians being slaughtered mobilized Allied popular support far more effectively than did German propaganda aimed at Germans — newspaper cartoons showing fumbling Allied resistance to their army’s advance. What Democrats + media + Washington D.C.’s “Deep State” is doing to American justice isn’t like (funny ha ha) "banana" republics. It’s more...