Call it whatever you like. Retribution. Vengeance. Banana Republicanism.

It’s worse than that.

The expected, and yet still unlikely, indictment of former FBI Director Jim Comey by a just- appointed interim U.S. attorney with no prosecutorial experience is far worse than that.

It is, at least for now, Donald Trump’s most full-blown assault on the rule of law and also against what it means (or meant, in any case) to live in an actual full-blown democracy. It comes only days after Trump went after late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel — in that case personally misusing the FCC with help from FCC Chair Brendan Carr — in a move often compared to mob bossism from the capo de capi in chief.

As we all know, Trump has been trying to get Comey for years, for a decade, ever since Comey was involved in

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