Lawless: A look at the 'shadow network' that censors dissent and tried to destroy Trump

Near the end of his important new book, The Disappearing of the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic, Lee Smith makes an important — and chilling — distinction. What has been happening in the last few years with the attacks on former President Donald Trump has not been a two-tiered system of justice, where some people get punished and others get off, as many conservatives have been arguing. Instead, it is a system of lawlessness. In fact, it’s barely a system at all.

“In the current system,” Smith writes, “law is an instrument the regime uses to punish political opponents, while everything is legit for the ruling party. That is, the current system is lawless.”