When lawfare In question, the real teachers are not those Latin American reactionary pedants who, for unspeakable reasons, try to take advantage of the small slips committed by popular leaders such as Cristina Kirchner, but the judicial warriors of North American progressivism. Last week an upstanding representative of that brotherhood, the district attorney of manhattan alvin bragga man who boasts of his Democratic militancy and got the position he holds after a campaign in which he promised to jail donald trump, managed to put him on trial in the presumed hope of seeing him sentenced to several years behind bars though. Presumably, he would be pleased if the affair, which involves the mogul’s 17-year relationship with a porn actress whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, served to discredit him in the eyes of the many fervent Christians who have so far supported him through despite his notorious fondness for carnal sins.
Although lawyers who have never hidden their contempt by Trump they found somewhat far-fetched, the accusations put forward by Bragg, Since buying the silence of a short-lived partner is not a federal crime, many Democrats are betting that they will turn out to be more hurtful than others that they have tried to end the character’s extravagant political career, since the attempt to kill him did not work. to prove that he was a puppet of Vladimir Putin and, so far, he has not been greatly harmed by the efforts of those who believe he is most responsible for the chaotic invasion of the Capitol by a mob in January 2021, a grotesque episode that, according to them, was an “insurrection” that could have transformed the United States into a fascist dictatorship.
Trump’s legal ambush occurred shortly after a fairly influential Republican senator who supports him, Ted Cruz, called for Trump authorities to The United States will investigate Cristina, in his opinion “a deeply corrupt policy”, for the illegal appropriation of a fabulous amount of dollars, for “having placed Argentine institutions at the service of Iran’s global terrorism” and for other misdeeds, thereby “undermining the rule of law in Argentina ”. The initiative may not prosper, but until further notice it would not be in the lady’s interest to travel to jurisdictions where politicized lawyers linked to the empire abound. In an attempt to mitigate the impact of the coup, Cristina attributed it to the proximity of Cruz to the “Judicial Party and Commodore Py”, that is, to an infamous worldwide campaign against him. He was not without a measure of reason: an international offensive, led by the United States, against kleptocracies, especially those prone to allying with Xi Jinping’s autocratic China, is gaining momentum.T
It’s not completely wrong either. Cristina when she talks about lawfare, that is, of the politicization of Justice. It is that ideological preferences, as well as religious beliefs, personal relationships and the cultural climate, have always influenced the conduct of prosecutors, judges and lawyers, in addition to that of legislators who, after all, ultimately instance are those who write the laws. It is therefore inevitable that, usually with a certain delay, cultural changes are reflected in the legislation of different societies, as has happened in the field of sexual relations, when normalizing, perhaps temporarily, variants that barely a year ago. couple of decades they were considered perverse throughout the western world and they continue to be so in societies of different traditions.
Thus, it is reasonable to attribute Cristina’s judicial problems and other corrupt Latin American politicians to the renewed will of those who are contrary to the values that such characters embody to prosecute them for violating the laws that, in theory, govern their countries, including Argentina, but that for a long time were taken for nothing more than expressions of wish perhaps praiseworthy but of limited practical value in the real world. All in all, although those accused of being corrupt have the support of a multitude of sympathizers, until now no militant has tried to justify explicitly, with understandable ideological or philosophical arguments, the systematic theft of who knows how many billions of pesos, dollars, euros or whatever for the Kirchner family and their minions. All they do is pretend to believe that such details are unimportant.
Like Cristina, Trump has begun what could prove to be a protracted walk through the courts until he is exonerated or ends up in jail; Like the lady, the American will face many more accusations than those already formulated. However, while it seems clear that most directed against Trump are inspired by his political activities, that is, by the lawfare of progressive lawyers determined to punish him For leading a sociopolitical and cultural project that in her opinion is atrociously racist and discriminatory, the charges against Cristina are much simpler. She is not in trouble because of her ideological militancy or her political decisions but because of the rampant corruption that characterized her management. Although it would be legitimate to maintain that what she did as ruler caused much more damage to the country than her lack of respect for the ethical principles enshrined in the legal system and the national Constitution, no one ignores that it is up to the electorate, not the courts, to judge her for her management as president or, as of December 2019, as the undisputed head of the ruling coalition.
Although Cristina does not like to be compared to the Donald at all, the truth is that she has a lot in common with the former North American president. Both depend on votes from sectors that have been left behind by the way the economies of many countries, both developed and backward, are evolving. In the opinion of his supporters, Trump is the antidote to deindustrialization driven by the decision to export many jobs manufacturing to countries like Chinawhile Christina attracts those who cannot find a place in the formal economy. Likewise, both have known how to take advantage of the rancorous hostility towards the elites of their respective countries that dominates the attitudes of a substantial proportion of their inhabitants. In their own way, they are political symptoms of a social malady from which not only Argentina but virtually every other country suffers.
Be that as it may, while in Argentina it is almost traditional to prosecute ex-presidents unless they were, as Arturo Illía and Raúl Alfonsín were, conspicuously honest people, it is not so in the United States. As many have pointed out, nothing like it has happened since 1872, when President Ulysses Grant was fined for breaking the law transit driver in a horse-drawn carriage. Thus, the New York prosecutor has just set a dangerous precedent, since North American presidents have rarely stood out for their willingness to strictly respect the labyrinthine legal system. By the way, there is no doubt that Republican lawyers could force Bill Clinton, as well as his wife, Hillary, to appear before a series of judges. They could also make life miserable for Joe Biden, first targeting his son, Hunter Biden, a man whose private life has been even more licentious than Trump’s, over shady deals in China and Ukraine that were facilitated by his link to then- vice president, to proceed to question the current president about his eventual participation. On the eve of the 2019 election, Hunter misplaced a laptop full of incriminating information that found its way into the New York Post, but other outlets, including California-based social media outlets that supported Biden, chose to minimize its dissemination, understanding it would help. to Trump.
A Pandora’s box has been opened, which is surely full of judicial explosives that those tempted by lawfare will not hesitate to try to use. Trump and his supporters say that he will be strengthened by this new political-legal battle in which he will once again be the central figure. Even if it isn’t, it will inevitably help convince them that what some call the “Deep State,” which to them is an evil alliance made up of the permanent bureaucracy that is mostly Democratic, the FBI, the CIA, the academic world , the still powerful unions, the technological mastodons of Silicon Valley and the most prestigious media outlets, is willing to go to any length to persecute them.
Those who insist that the United States is on the brink of civil war will exaggerate, but it is clear that the risk of outbreaks of political violence in the coming months has increased and that the electoral campaign that has already begun will turn out to be still more tumultuous, and more fierce than the last one in which Biden managed to dethrone Trump who, even so, garnered more votes than any other candidate for president in American history with the sole exception of who turned out to be the winner.
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