Commentary
One of the key pillars undergirding the unprecedented successes of the American republic has been our embrace and adherence to the rule of law. The founding generation believed that nobody was above the law and that the law applied impartially to all (well, at least to all free men).
Over generations of American history, there have been corrections and improvements to our practice of the rule of law as well as setbacks and departures from that principle. On the positive side, racial minorities and women have been added to the list of those who are equal before the law.
On the negative side, the corruption of cronyism (aka “special interest politics”) has grown to gigantic proportions, and the intellectual sophistries of Marxists, communists, social justice frauds, et al. have perverted the rule of law by claiming that the only way to achieve justice (equal treatment before the law) is to deny justice (equal treatment before the law) to politically out-of-favor targets….