I don't think this argument has received the attention it deserves. The country has elected a criminal, one who avoided the most serious charges because Merrick Garland and the Justice Department used a "by the book," bottom-up strategy for Jan. 6 prosecutions -- which they should have known would get short-circuited by the calendar. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/07/trump-legal-failures-blame-column-00187945