Is Donald Trump’s indictment historic? Yes. Is it a menacing test of our democracy? As stevebenen writes, it is not — unless the former president and the Republican Party turn it into one.
History’s first federal indictment against a former president poses one of the gravest challenges to democracy the country has ever faced. It represents either a validation of the rule-of-law principle that even the most powerful face accountability for their actions or the moment when a vast swath of the public becomes convinced that the system has been irredeemably corrupted by partisanship.
The commentary is entirely sensible, though there’s a dimension to this that’s easy to overlook: This is a test we already know how to pass.from the Republican’s first indictment, Trump is a scandal-plagued politician who’s been indicted — twice — creating conditions that certainly seem unusual. But in the United States, we have all kinds of experience with scandal-plagued politicians getting indicted.
But it’s not as if Americans are unfamiliar with the broader dynamic at the intersection of politics and the criminal justice system. The fact that it involves a former president is unusual, but we’ve seen indictments of governors, senators, House members, state legislators, Cabinet secretaries, mayors, city officials, and, in John Edwards’ case, even a former vice presidential nominee., alsoNone of these cases threatened our republic. The suspects were charged, and they had trials.
Our political system, in other words, should be able to handle Trump’s indictments without breaking a sweat.
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