Whether I like Bush Jr., or Cheney (either one, really), or George Will, or any other Republican endorsing her, or not, they are still people that believe in the rule of law.
A distinction - Bush and Cheney believed in having the rule of law. They regularly and flagrantly broke it, but preserved the process of legality because they didn’t want to destroy the law as a concept, they just wanted to get around it to do whatever heinous fucking thing they had in mind at the moment.
TBH, Dems have absolutely done the same thing before. A super-easy example is Biden’s policies to forgive student loans (which, BTW, I’m fully in favor of; it was just done in such a way that it wasn’t legal). There’s currently a case underway right now regarding the Lloyd Austin throwing out plea agreements with Guantanamo Bay detainees; there’s a pretty solid argument that he doesn’t have that legal right.
My point is that Bush et al. pushed the limits of what was legal, and in general stopped doing those things when courts told them that they weren’t allowed to. OTOH, Trump has absolutely, 100%, flagrantly violated the law and court orders many, many times.
I would say there’s a significant difference in the approach. The Biden administration throwing things at the wall in the hopes that something will stick is a bit different in intent to the Bush administration lying, obfuscating, denying, downplaying, and only then resorting to semantics to cover their illegal activity. Not that Dems have never done that, but the two examples you cited are far from the egregious disrespect for the law displayed by the Bush administration.
In any case, we’re in agreement that Trump is beyond even that. What a shitshow. It can always get worse, it seems.
A distinction - Bush and Cheney believed in having the rule of law. They regularly and flagrantly broke it, but preserved the process of legality because they didn’t want to destroy the law as a concept, they just wanted to get around it to do whatever heinous fucking thing they had in mind at the moment.
TBH, Dems have absolutely done the same thing before. A super-easy example is Biden’s policies to forgive student loans (which, BTW, I’m fully in favor of; it was just done in such a way that it wasn’t legal). There’s currently a case underway right now regarding the Lloyd Austin throwing out plea agreements with Guantanamo Bay detainees; there’s a pretty solid argument that he doesn’t have that legal right.
My point is that Bush et al. pushed the limits of what was legal, and in general stopped doing those things when courts told them that they weren’t allowed to. OTOH, Trump has absolutely, 100%, flagrantly violated the law and court orders many, many times.
I would say there’s a significant difference in the approach. The Biden administration throwing things at the wall in the hopes that something will stick is a bit different in intent to the Bush administration lying, obfuscating, denying, downplaying, and only then resorting to semantics to cover their illegal activity. Not that Dems have never done that, but the two examples you cited are far from the egregious disrespect for the law displayed by the Bush administration.
In any case, we’re in agreement that Trump is beyond even that. What a shitshow. It can always get worse, it seems.