Commentary I have always admired the admonitory wisdom that Auric Goldfinger imparted to James Bond early in Ian Fleming’s novel named for the gold-loving villain: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.” I have thought often of that sage advisory in recent months as so many once-trustworthy institutions of American life seem to have been weaponized against the people they were meant to serve. This is, alas, a huge topic, and today I will only scratch the surface. What makes the rule of law the rule of law is its more-or-less consistent application. I say “more-or-less” because we live in an imperfect universe and, though we may strive for complete consistency, it will always elude us. But that is not to say that we can say that some societies come closer to the ideal than others. In a rational society, the laws are few, publicly …