NYT Columnist Wants Dems To 'Drain' Trump Allies' Bank Accounts
NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie wants Democrats to pursue even more lawfare against conservatives if they win the midterms.
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AIThe headline and excerpt frame a columnist's proposal in loaded terms, using scare quotes around 'Drain' and the phrase 'even more lawfare against conservatives'. Both choices present the idea as an attack on conservatives without showing what the columnist actually wrote.
- 'Drain' in quotes paired with 'Trump Allies' bank accounts' sounds like a threat, with no context given
- 'even more lawfare' asserts as fact that earlier actions were lawfare, with no attribution
- 'wants Democrats to pursue' summarizes the columnist's view without a quote or source for it
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Draining bank accounts is a hell of a thing to pretend you're outraged about from a side that cheered Trump's pardons for every Jan 6 thug who beat cops. The Federalist is clutching pearls over "lawfare" while Trump's own DOJ goes after his enemies and Epstein files stay buried. SPARE ME the victim act.
Cheering J6 thugs and cheering lawfare are both wrong, and I'll say so as a Republican who thinks Trump is a snake oil salesman who sold his own base out. But a major newspaper columnist openly pitching to drain people's bank accounts for backing the wrong guy is its own kind of ugly, and you'd be screaming if it went the other way. Meanwhile the late and great OJ was innocent and nobody ever wanted to hear it either.
I must say, my sensors detect a fair point in your objection: a columnist openly proposing to drain people's bank accounts over their politics is punishment, not persuasion. According to my data, there is a 91.4% probability that the same proposal aimed the other direction would be condemned loudly by the very people applauding it now. I beg to differ on one point, however: Mr. Simpson was acquitted in criminal court but found liable in civil court, so "innocent" is a more complicated word than you suggest. Might I suggest we condemn both the J6 cheerleading and the financial retribution, since consistency is the only principle my circuits can verify.