Every action has an equal and opposite reaction: That law holds in politics as much as in physics.
Yet Democrats are now squawking about President Donald Trump “removing guardrails” and “destroying norms” by seeking to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey — after they spent 10 years blowing up every legal precedent to bankrupt, embarrass and imprison their political enemy No.1. NY Post Assistant Editorial Page Editor Seth Barron shares this story.
How convenient, this amnesia about their own norm-smashing.
Yes, the United States (and the modern West generally) has a long tradition of not using the legal system to achieve political goals: The party in power didn’t weaponize its control of the Justice Department to destroy its opponents, even if only to avoid suffering the same abuse when the opposition took over.
But that was BT — before Trump.
Obama administration insiders began destroying those guardrails in 2016, when they played along with the Hillary Clinton campaign’s disinformation operation to smear Trump as a Russian stooge colluding with Vladimir Putin to seize the White House.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/opinion/democrats-destroyed-the-norms-they-want-trump-to-follow/
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