The Patriot Post® · Friday Opinion
Today’s Editors’ Choice
- Erick Erickson: A Nation of Men, Not Laws
- Cornwall Alliance: What’s Wrong With the Claim That ‘97% of Climate Scientists Agree’ About Global Warming?
- David Harsanyi: You Know What’s Worse Than Overreacting to Terror? Normalizing It
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Opinion in Brief
Erick Erickson: “Compare [James] Comey to 25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner of Augusta, GA. Ms. Winner, a self-entitled millennial who possibly put our national security in jeopardy, allegedly decided to abuse her position as a national security contractor. Having now been arrested, Ms. Winner is accused of leaking classified information hoping to harm the president. On Twitter, she tweeted that she would stand with the Iranians against President Trump. She decided to do what she thought was right, not what the law required or demanded. James Comey, Donald Trump and Reality Winner all did that. They did what they thought was right, not what the law required. President Trump decided he could do what he did because he was president. Comey decided he was the FBI director and no one could question him. Winner did what she did thinking she could undermine the president. In all three cases, these individuals made it about themselves, not the law. As a result, they have all weakened institutions of public trust. They have made us more a nation of men and not laws. And all of them, and their supporters, think they did nothing wrong. It was the other guy’s fault. Our great national experiment in democracy continues to crumble, eroded by the supposed good intentions of too many bad actors.”