Comey had no business investigating Clinton while she was running for the highest office in the land.
I don't agree. He had every right. What he didn't have the right to do was to make the investigation public. Either directly, by having a press conference, or indirectly, by letting Congress know without making the information classified and insuring that it would be leaked.
If this is how we run things from now on the party in power can destroy all future candidates from the other party by putting them under a cloud of investigations (it's what Putin would do). Republicans don't want a constitutional democracy.
This isn't new. Under Bush the Lesser, the Republicans wanted to use the DOJ to investigate Democrats before elections. The USA's who refused to do that were fired. Remember the furor over the firing of the US attorneys?
I don't think the Republicans necessarily want a dictatorship. I think they just want to win, regardless of the methods. Now admittedly, that might just be semantics, but...
Still, they don't really care if we have a democracy, an autocracy, a theocracy or our present kakistocracy, as long as they get to wave the baton, they don't really care. |
