Washington Examiner editorial : What transpired Thursday .   .   . is election interference. It is a flagrant abuse of the criminal justice system for nakedly partisan purposes that will tarnish our democracy for a long time, perhaps permanently.   .   . justice delayed is justice denied. And the appeals process means justice will be delayed and denied beyond the election. From now until then, Democrats will refer always to Trump as a “convicted felon.” That is what the prosecutor went to work for, that is what the Democratic Party wanted, and that is what it got.     Vaksberg Arkadii, Stalin’s Prosecutor: the Life of Andrei Vyshinsky : Vyshinsky [was] chief prosecutor for [] the Moscow “show trials” of 1936-1938[, involving] top government officials accused of “anti-Soviet activities” under Russian Criminal Code Article 58. [The] reason for the “trials” was to send a clear message from Stalin to any potential enemies that questioning h...

                     Disraeli                   F.D.R.       Churchill                 J.F.K.                                                                                                Anglo-American democracy, the remarkably sober and decent politics of “the English-speaking peoples” as Winston Churchill famously called them, represented that non-ideological current of moderni...