When revolutionaries come into power, they often come to resemble their nemeses. After spending years decrying left-wing “wokeness” and cancel culture, Republicans are now deploying tactics they once deplored against their opponents. Rather than restoring academic freedom, the Trump administration has tried to force private universities into accepting commissars to oversee whom they admit and what they teach. President Donald Trump decried the many civil and criminal cases against him and his supporters. Instead of ending lawfare, the president is publicly jawboning his attorney general into prosecuting his political antagonists, such as former FBI Director James Comey and New York State Attorney General Letitia James, even when the underlying evidence seems weak.

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