The Bulwark

 The Bulwark is a very diverse website, in the literal as opposed to the contemporary sense of the word. It will have fine articles by serious and thoughtful writers, well written though wrongheaded public relations pieces for the Democrats, vulgar gonzo-like stuff by someone who may not have realized he is not Hunter S.  Thompson, and crazy leftist screeds about things such as abolishing the Republican party or uncovering a Republican plot to create a one party state, often all on the same day.

There was a recent article by one of the Bulwark’s regulars who writes on legal subjects that at least implied that Attorney General Garland may be going after Republicans such as Giuliani out of pique and a desire for revenge for being denied a seat on the supreme court. That is a harsh and disqualifying thing to say about Garland and something he surely would deny.   However, the author said it as if it were a good thing that would serve the Republicans right. It wasn’t Chelsea Handler demanding to send people to prison without trials, but it was strange enough in a publication which rightly and repeatedly attacked Trump for his lack of respect for propriety and the rule of law.

One can have been right in opposing Trump and predicting how he would behave after losing and still have other opinions that are neither valid, reasonable, or even sane.  Some of Trump’s enemies are, if not deranged, at least unhealthily obsessed on the subject of Trump and Trumpists, sometimes to the point of behaving like him. Some others are leftist authoritarians who, while pretending to fret over a “threat to democracy”,  have less use for the republic and the liberal order than he did.  A few of both write for The Bulwark, and the people running the site seem to like it that way.