Of the many ways Ron DeSantis has mimicked Donald Trump’s political style, the most chilling may be his enthusiasm for using legal power as a naked political bludgeon. jonathanchait writes
announced he would ask the Florida Supreme Court to form a grand jury to investigate makers of the COVID-19 vaccine, charging it with “investigating cardiac-related deaths tied to the mRNA vaccine” and bringing “legal accountability for those who committed misconduct.” It was perhaps inevitable thatwould escalate to the point that he would finally threaten to bring the power of the law down on his adversaries.
This is not the first time DeSantis theatrically announced he would be locking up some of his favorite political targets. In August, he held a splashy news conference to announce the arrest of 20 Floridians on voting-fraud charges. The indictments have since collapsed as DeSantis’s targets turned out to have been victims of mistaken advice by election authorities — but not before he was able to turn his stunt into a wave of gushy coverage in conservative media.
But the specifics of the regulations was never the point. The point is that the right’s enemies are presumptively a criminal class. Over the years, Trump’s rally attendees easily transferred their “Lock her up!” chant to a series of targets without even bothering with a legal pretext. In office, Trump repeatedly ordered trumped-up investigations into his political rivals. One of those episodes, his extortion of Ukraine, led to his first impeachment.
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