The Trump Hush-Money Case Is A Righteous Opportunity, Not An Embarrassment

Alvin Bragg did the right thing; now it’s up to Democrats to capitalize on it

In the spirit of looking backwards, and not just forwards, as a political strategy, I want to point to a golden opportunity Democrats may soon have to remind the country why Donald Trump is beneath us all.

The Supreme Court’s decision last week to help Trump run out the clock on his federal January 6 criminal trial, and its subsequent Monday decision that the Constitution does not apply to Donald Trump, were both astonishingly craven. But liberal anger over these abuses of power obscures a bright spot. The court didn’t freeze all of Trump’s trials in place. By delaying one, it paved the way for Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, to try Trump for fraud in the infamous hush-money case. 

The pattern of behavior that Bragg will present contains incredibly potent and damning information, but it can only be put to use if Democrats and liberals can get over their neurotic doubts about “looking backward” and their vain desire to seem reasonable.

Because if he’s convicted, he won’t just be a felon technically speaking for having falsified business records and evaded New York taxes. He will have been proven beyond reasonable doubt to have cheated his way into what became a disastrous presidency.