Dwain Northey (Gen X)

The sheer hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. For years, dear leader screamed from the rooftops that the “Biden administration” had weaponized the government against him. That claim became the central grievance of his political martyrdom. But now? He has gleefully taken the Department of Justice and bent it into his own personal cudgel, demanding prosecutions of anyone who ever dared to challenge him — James Comey, Letitia James, and just about anyone else who had the audacity to call him out. The supposed victim of government weaponization has become the gleeful executioner.

This is not just hypocrisy — it’s an inversion of the very legal system the United States was built on nearly 250 years ago. Our founders tried to craft a system where laws applied equally, where the government wasn’t a tool of kings or petty tyrants, where justice was supposed to be blind. And yet, what do we have today? A justice system being twisted into a personal vendetta machine, with prosecutors pressured to go after whoever bruised dear leader’s fragile ego in 2016 or beyond. This isn’t justice; it’s vengeance masquerading as law.

And the tragedy is that the very people who once wrapped themselves in the Flag— the self-proclaimed party of law and order — are now kneeling in blind obedience to the man dismantling it. Trump Republicans (Trumpubicans) are not just looking the other way; they are actively cheering as the safeguards of democracy are shredded before our eyes. They claim to revere the founders, yet they stand by while the balance of powers is replaced with a single man’s grudge list.

Make no mistake: this kind of blind loyalty, this eagerness to convert the DOJ into an extension of one man’s will, could very well be the downfall of the American experiment. Democracies don’t collapse overnight — they erode, one corrupted institution at a time, while too many people convince themselves that their leader’s hypocrisy is somehow justified. If weaponization was once the charge, then Trump’s own weaponization of the DOJ is the smoking gun.

And here’s the most bitter irony: he claims he is proving himself to be “a just man.” But justice that is selective, vindictive, and wielded like a club against critics is not justice at all — it is tyranny with paperwork. If this path continues, the United States risks trading in 250 years of hard-fought democratic governance for the whims of a single man and the spineless party too afraid to tell him no.