The Justice Department’s most recent indictment of former President Donald Trump has generated widespread outcry about the grievous nature of the sitting president’s administration targeting his political rival. The agency’s ongoing legal jihad against Trump means that federal officials have not only interfered in the past two presidential elections, but that they’re actively interfering in the next one as well.
Egregious as it all may be, these are just some of the many instances of the U.S. government’s war on Americans’ civil liberties. In recent years, federal officials have been busted for colluding with Big Tech platforms to censor free speech, targeting pro-lifers, parents, and Catholics, and using Covid-19 as an excuse to orchestrate the greatest state-sponsored assault on American freedoms in the modern era, just to name a few.
The sad irony found in all of this is that leading U.S. officials regularly criticize other countries for engaging in many of these same or similar behaviors. Last year, for instance, the U.S. was quick to condemn the imprisonment of Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin who was convicted of “fraud” charges by government officials and was barred in 2017 from running in the nation’s elections. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken released a statement in March 2021 criticizing the Chinese government for interfering in Hong Kong’s elections to benefit pro-China candidates.
None of this is to suggest the levels of persecution being committed by these countries and the U.S.
