Trump’s J6 Pardons Signal the End Of The War On Wrongthink
POTUS' opening executive actions have begun to reverse the weaponization and hyper-politicization of the federal government against dissenters
In the four years since the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, fueled as predicted in no small part by that event, Democrats have crushed and disenfranchised their political opponents in a bid to achieve total power by waging a whole-of-society war on wrongthink. This war encompassed, among other elements, the lawfare apparatus, the broader weaponized administrative state, and the Censorship-Industrial Complex.
Now, with President Trump’s many corrective actions during week one of his second term, we may be witnessing the beginning of the end of this tyrannical war — the first step toward restoring liberty and justice in this country.
In a new piece at The Federalist, I chronicle many of these actions, ranging from executive orders ending weaponization of the federal government and prohibiting fed-led censorship, to the Justice Department’s dropping of FACE Act cases persecuting pro-lifers.
But perhaps most significant, symbolically and substantively, is the president’s blanket pardon of January 6 defendants. I analyze the controversial and courageous move, writing in part:
It would have been more politically correct to do a bifurcated set of pardons based on the nature of alleged offenses. But the administration evidently considered Jan. 6 in its totality in deciding to end the entire lawfare inquisition.
Reports suggest the administration weighed the vigorous and seemingly vengeful J6 prosecutions against the leniency granted to Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters who assaulted cops, murdered people, and burned down cities during the summer of 2020. It likely considered the grave defects to the cases: D.C. judges heaped collective guilt on the defendants and treated them with hostility, authorities violated their due process rights, and defendants faced perhaps the most anti-MAGA jury pools in America while judges refused to let them change venues.
The administration surely recognized, as the Supreme Court confirmed, that prosecutors twisted and tortured laws like the Enron-driven “obstruction of an official proceeding” charge to hang felonies around the necks of protesters. It understood that some without any prior criminal records were subjected to pretrial detention for months on end, with many subjected to alleged abuse in squalid jail conditions. It also appears to have acknowledged the complexity of judging people’s offenses given the presence of informants who may have entrapped some and the reported provocations, if not brutality, of individual police officers.
In short, the president seemingly surmised that the prosecutions were the fruit of a poisonous tree — and were themselves poisoned. Punishment had already been more than meted out.
Read the whole thing here.