Can Constitution ban Trump from running? It’s a shaky legal argument

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. Those words from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche capture the fear that the struggle against the ideas and people we oppose will twist us into the very thing we hate.

For Democrats, that moment has come in an age of rage against former President Donald Trump in particular and conservatives in general. It’s an age when reason and restraint are strangers.

In various areas, Democrats have embraced repellent concepts in the effort to silence or even jail their opponents. What is most striking is that legal arguments now used by the left were once used against the left.

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Prof. Turley makes the mistake of comparing the new Democrats to the old Democrats. The name may be the same but the party is not. In many ways, they’re quite the opposite. The new party is the old Students for a Democratic Society all grown up and ready to riot. Well, they were always ready to riot, but they still are, and so are the kids we unwisely handed over to their teachings.