That's the six word Democrat mantra no Democrat will utter for the next three and a half years.
By Rich Kozlovich
On Monday August 24, 2025 Amy Curtis posted this piece, Chuck Todd: Don't Make Democrats Live by Their Own Lawfare Rules, saying:
Lefties, you were warned. We told you years ago
-- before Donald Trump came down that escalator -- that using the
government to harass the Democratic Party's political opponents would
not end well ... for Democrats.
They didn't listen. Obama's IRS targeted conservative non-profits to
throw the 2012 election. Both Obama and Biden used the federal
government to attack pro-life businesses and protesters. And, of course,
Democrats ran for office vowing to use their power to attack President
Trump and throw him in prison.
'No one is above the law!' they
screamed at us. Now the Republicans are playing by the same rules, and
the Democrats don't like it. Two
days ago, Chuck Todd was whining about the FBI investigating John
Bolton, and now he's back to whine some more about Democrats having to
live under the rules they created:
So, what was it Todd said?
The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a
right” mindset. Revenge over principles...
Imagine that, revenge over principles, like the Democrats did for over eight years prosecuting people with made up crimes, like General Flynn who pleaded guilty because the legal costs were unbearable and they told him to plead guilty or they were going to go after his family. And when he pleaded guilty the left sneered, cheered, and rolled on the ground in laughter so pleased this legal fraud worked. Are those the kind of principles Todd is talking about?
The difference is lawfare wasn't about enforcing the law, it was about creating crimes that didn't exist for political gain to destroy their adversaries. Even if found not guilty, the process is the punishment, and that process is capable of bankrupting even wealthy people, as they tried to do to Trump.
What the Trump team is doing is actually enforcing the law against crimes that really were committed. That's not revenge, it's law enforcement, it's good government.
The internet wasn't kind to Todd starting with Gregg Gutfeld who commented:
- @greggutfeld on Bolton FBI raid: “Some
say it’s retribution, I say who cares. Don’t lecture me on timing of
lawfare, don’t lecture me on politically motivated investigations. You
guys invented this: you loved doing it to Trump.”
Curtis says, cope and seethe, Chuckie. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Now it's too late, and a number of others posted comments:
- We
warned the left not to do this. We begged them not to weaponize the
DOJ. We were ignored. You cheered it on. Now the right is using the
rules that the left put in place. The chickens have indeed come home to
roost. If you had a problem with this can of worms being open you should have said something when it was being opened.
Stop being a hypocrite.
- In your lifetime, has ANYTHING more harmful to Democracy happened than this:
Prosecuting the eventual winner of the presidency in an obvious attempt to block the majority of Americans from electing their preferred candidate?
- What’s killing democracy is hard core far left partisan ideologues hosting television news shows while pretending to be unbiased and objective.
- Except no one on the Left ever said the lawfare against Trump was “wrong.”
In fact, the Left incessantly cheered it all on while lecturing the country that “No one is above the law.”
And now the hypocrisy from the Left is off the charts.
- The Republicans are playing by Democrat rules now.
It's understandable that you're upset about that.
They have 2016-2024 to make up for. In eight years we can discuss neutrality.
- Being this stupid is a choice Chuck.
Y'all aren't "losing" your audience so much as insulting their intelligence so much they turn on you.
- These people really thought they were going to be able to throw all the punches they could and then tap out when it was our turn. I can’t even figure out this mentality. Stupidity? Arrogance?
Whatever it is, we’re at war now. You declared war. Now, war it is.
- This from actor Nick Searcy: By the way, we are not a democracy, hypocrite. And you didn’t care when your side did it to us. So STFU.
- Show us where you called the lawfare against Trump “wrong.”
- The concept of "no one is above the law" was discarded rather quickly the night of November 5, 2024.
- The current virus is actually “the first wrong was fine but what’s happening now is a grave threat to democracy.”
Here's what's going on with the Bolton investigation thus far. John Bolton is being investigated for violations of the Espionage Act, and as Jim Jordan notes, the Bolton investigation ‘is not about political retribution, it's about accountability.
Accountability, and no one is above the law. That's the Republican mantra for the next three and one half years, and if Vance is elected in 28, most likely for years go come, and that's what's triggered all this leftist outrage over Bolton. The left is petrified. They're asking themselves with fear and trembling.... 'who will be next'? As Monica Showalter says:
The swamp is being drained. And
now that the first alligator has been taken out -- in the FBI raid on
the home and office of Trump-hating former National Security official
John Bolton, reportedly for mishandling state secrets -- the rest of
them are sleeping with one eye open....... They plotted against President Trump, and now they're finding that
things didn't work out quite the way they thought they were going to
work out.......
You have to know in their minds they're frantically working on a defensive strategy for when the FBI comes after them. Should we cooperate, refuse to cooperate.... or how about this... I'll squeal for a deal? And that's what the strategy will be for a lot of the "little people" who have no desire to go to prison so those higher up on the food chain can keep living the high life free and easy.
Jack Hellner says the Washington Post is clutching its pearls
citing a piece from WaPo saying the FBI raid targeting Bolton crosses a line in the Trump revenge campaign. Jack called them hypocrites over what they approved of over the years:
Calling bad actors like Merrick Garland, Eric
Holder, Loretta Lynch, Andy McCabe, James Comey, among other corrupt
leftists independent and non partisan. The corrupt investigation over
the Russian collusion, the lies by the FBI to the FISA court, the
illegal spying on Trump, the failure to prosecute lying to Congress, and
there was a lot of that, the illegal activities of the FBI persecuting
conservatives, destroying documents, Obama ordering the Justice
Department to drop charges against drug-running terrorists to appease
Iran, didn't phase them at all.
They didn't mind the Obama/Biden administration going after
parents, Catholics, peaceful pro-life protesters while ignoring
violent acts on crisis pregnancy centers and churches.
It never
once bothered them the Justice Department failed to act on the illegal
activities of the Clinton and the Biden crime families, even providing
cover for those crimes, while lauding the FBI's raid on Trump's home, and states illegally and deliberately ignoring immigration laws.
Not one bit of that bother them one iota, but the Bolton raid just crossed way over the line. Imagine that. The fact is no matter what the Trump DOJ does it will be called political revenge, retribution, and a threat to Democracy. The new mantra of the Democrat party, but it will not be, "no one is above the law". The fact is the Obama/Biden/Clinton cabal have committed crimes, a lot of them, and the charges against them will not be lawfare, it will be law enforcement, and there will be unimpeachable documentation to prove it.
