Not to get all Old World on you, but the Oxford Dictionary defines “lawfare” thusly: “Legal action undertaken in order to exert power or control, esp. as part of a hostile campaign against a particular country or group.”
In New World parlance? Author Malcolm Feeley in 1979 published a tome with a title that best sums up the point of lawfare: “The Process Is the Punishment.”
It’s death by a thousand cuts—of red tape. You are bled out by government.
President Donald Trump was endlessly subjected to stupid, baseless charges and lawsuits filed in various courts all around the country. But while this was referred to as lawfare, I would argue the process wasn’t the punishment for which its many executors ultimately hoped.
They actually wanted to send Trump to prison. Because they hate him. And because they knew if they failed to send him to prison, he…
