I want to make an esoteric but important point: if America had treated the LAW like it does MEDICINE—a discipline in which facts exist, experts exist, and standards are measurable—the whole country would have come around on Trump's *law-breaking* the way it is now on coronavirus.
What we did, instead, was treat LAW like POLITICS—a matter of opinion in which even someone with no legal degree, no legal experience, and no legal temperament should be treated with the same deference as the *thousands* of former federal prosecutors who said Trump broke the law.
At the start of the coronavirus epidemic, Republicans chose to treat MEDICINE like POLITICS. Then folks started getting infected in the tens of thousands and started dying in the hundreds—soon, thousands. Suddenly Republicans were willing to acknowledge that MEDICINE is MEDICINE.
But here's a little secret: not only is the LAW the LAW, but it's often as life-or-death as MEDICINE is. People get caged for life—or, in some cases, killed by the government. And actions that are criminal can cost lives indirectly. That's what happened with Trump's law-breaking.
Those of us who spent the past 3 years treating the LAW as the LAW—as a discipline with facts, experts, standards, experience, associated skillsets, a history, and real consequences—rather than POLITICS (little more than a game, now) got attacked by those treating it as POLITICS.
Thank god people are starting to treat MEDICINE like MEDICINE—it'll save lives. But apparently the nation has no such intention when it comes to LAW. We'll keep treating the LAW like POLITICS without realizing the consequences for us doing so could be just as dire as coronavirus.
