‘Slide Into Autocracy’
Dear Editor, What do you get when the President of a democratic nation seizes control of that nation’s once independent Justice Department (with the help of an Attorney General eager to do his bidding) in order to go after and retaliate against his perceived political opponents, “enemies,” critics, and any others who displease him or whom he sees as insufficiently “loyal”? And to protect and reward his friends and allies by pressuring “his” justice system to get them off the hook or at least lighten their sentences for criminal acts (often on his behalf) for which ...