The leftist election interference crew

OPINION:

Progressive pundits have a habit of sticking to the same words and phrases when discussing major issues of the day. No matter who is talking on MSNBC, CNN or a podcast, they speak in unison. That happens thanks to coordination by a small group of subversives.

Politico last week documented the machinations of leftist commentators and former government officials who have been holding weekly Zoom sessions to hammer out messaging since 2022, when it became clear that former President Donald Trump intended to run again in 2024.

Participants explore the most effective talking points to ensure that voters won’t send Mr. Trump back to the White House. Or if they do, how best to sabotage his administration. The emphasis is on hijacking the legal system to undermine the opposition.

According to Politico, the brain trust consists of people who have rotated between positions in law, media and government such as The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, Robert Mueller hatchet man Andrew Weissmann, former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Karen Agnifilo, lefty lawyer Laurence Tribe, Bill Kristol and others.

Those in the sympathetic press love to refer to a few members like Mr. Kristol as “conservative” to imply balance, but this is an illusion. Whatever he once was, Mr. Kristol tweeted that “we are all Democrats now” as he endorsed Joe Biden in 2020. He even preferred former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe over rising GOP star Glenn Youngkin for Virginia governor.

They are all partisan activists who come together as part of a well-funded leftist machine with Brookings fellow Norm Eisen serving as ringmaster. A former Obama administration official, Mr. Eisen guided the House effort to impeach Mr. Trump in 2020.

Another key player, former acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord, oversaw the Justice Department’s use of Hillary Clinton’s Steele dossier to hobble Mr. Trump through a series of federal investigations.

Ms. McCord was even appointed as an adviser to the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court, even though she was involved in sending that court an application filled with lies supplied by Mrs. Clinton’s campaign so FBI partisans could spy on Mr. Trump’s campaign.

The cabal’s legal work has rounded up political prisoners. Peter Navarro is locked up for refusing to cooperate with the illegitimate Jan. 6 committee, even though Democrats routinely get away with flouting subpoenas from valid congressional committees.

Douglass Mackey will spend the next seven months in jail for posting a meme mocking Mrs. Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign unless the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejects the lawfare crew’s preposterous argument that posting a joke constitutes election interference.

But the big target remains Mr. Trump, which is why Mr. Eisen and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade each wrote lengthy legal treatises outlining schemes to charge the former president with various crimes. Government prosecution teams used the documents as a road map for the four indictments brought against Mr. Trump, along with the unsuccessful effort to throw him off the ballot entirely.

The more Democrats get away with perverting the legal system to get in its way, the more brazen their strategies will become. House Republicans ought to fight fire with fire, using the power of subpoena to expose the depth of coordination between government actors and partisans seeking to undermine the public’s ability to vote for the candidate of their choice.