Thread by @TheRickWilson

1/ I want you to imagine the reaction of Republicans everywhere if Eric Holder held secret meetings with media CEOs.

I'll tell you what it would be just to save you some time; there would be a damn gibbet erected on the White House lawn.

2/ There would be calls for his immediate removal from office. There would be baroque conspiracy theories ascribing a gigantic plot of liberal subversion against the press and inappropriate pressure brought to bear on media outlets.

3/ Every single conservative media outlet would spend 24 hours a day losing their fucking minds.

Now let me tell you why this is so much worse.

4/ From the beginning, Bill Barr has seen his role not as a neutral figure empowered to uphold and enforce the law, but rather as an explicit enabler of Donald Trump, as a man willing to violate every conceivable norm, and as an overtly partisan shield against accountability.

5/ As I wrote about six months ago, Bill Barr is the most dangerous man in America.

He wields the enormous power of the DOJ not in pursuit of the law and justice, but as a weapon against Trump's enemies.

6/ Barr's view of the absolute and unbounded supremacy of executive power is a frightening and dangerous as hell, as any actual conservative would recognize.

His direct interference in the special counsel investigation...

7/ ... His personal role in attempting to create a phony deep state conspiracy to placate Trump, his inappropriate conversations which Republican members of the House and Senate (I know things, Bill), Eddie's efforts to silence cooperation inside the White House...

8/ ...are absolutely disqualifying for an Attorney General of the United States of America. This isn't "Better call Barr."

A president who honored his oath of office and our system of government would never hire someone like this.

Then again, Trump.

9/ John Mitchell's ghost is laughing down in hell.

/Ends