When Republicans find themselves unable to defend something Donald Trump has done, they tend to look for a way to turn the blame onto his opponents. So it is with the president’s prosecutorial rampage against his enemies.

The anti-anti-Trump right has declared that, although a series of vindictive charges against the likes of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James may be regrettable, Democrats brought it on themselves.

“Two wrongs do not make a right, but Democrats did start this,” argued the conservative columnist and talk-radio host Erick Erickson. It “should be beyond dispute that the Biden-era lawfare campaign against Donald Trump was both a huge electoral failure and a disaster for American civics,” wrote the columnist Dan McLaughlin in the Natio

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