Columnist Michael Barone says Indicting Trump is bad law, smart politics.
What do you do to win an election when your candidate is universally known and unpopular with a majority of voters? That's a question both major parties have had to face in the last few years. Both look like they're going to face it for some time longer.
The obvious solution for Democrats is once again to run against Donald Trump. He lost in 2020, and his postelection movements -- acting in reckless disregard of, if not actively encouraging, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, preposterously boasting that he actually won in a landslide, focusing on his own complaints and ignoring those of actual voters -- haven't made him any more popular.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service Even liberal legal commentators have criticized the indictment."Bragg," writes Vox's Ian Millhiser,"has built one of the most controversial and high-profile criminal cases in American history upon the most uncertain of foundations." Similarly, Slate's Mark Joseph Stern warns"This is not at all the slam-dunk case that so many Democrats wanted.
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