Yes, a dangerous but excellent precedent.
Biden aside, we haven’t forgotten about Obama, or Bush Jr. for that matter. As I’ve said before, Republicans are the pearl-clutching, turn-the-other-cheek party. They don’t draw first blood, but will act on precedent once it establishes itself, i.e. see the nuclear option.
I wish Trump the best with his legal challenges, but his first in class indictment opens the door on willingness to indict liberals, i.e. communists, as a litmus test for electability. Those unwilling to use state power in self-defense against them, those willing to use state power as aggression against us, have no future in right-wing politics.
It is how the Hoppean helicopter meme establishes itself.
As it should be.
They know what’s coming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/opinion/trump-prosecution-precedent.html