Victor Davis Hanson

@VDH

All of sudden pundits are shrieking as they imagine the impending “end of democracy”. That is, that a potential president Trump might follow their lead and could do to them what they did to him: weaponizing the DOJ, FBI, and CIA against political enemies, siccing the administrative state against loud critics, using presidential fiats to override Congress, trying to force, hire, or partner with “independent" media to toe party lines, floating phony conspiracy theories to smear enemies, changing voting laws to alter balloting and on and on. Ironically, the Left did all it could both to push the Trump nomination and then as Lilliputians to tie him down with 91 indictments in efforts to hamstring what they hoped would be soon an intent nominee.

But now they seem terrified, believing that might be empowering the only Republican candidate who would stoop to use their own tactics against themselves—and given the recent polls could become in a position to do so.