Sophomoric argument. Trump is not a Government official using his office to threaten anyone. He is a private citizen the same as those attacking him.
Except that he aspires to become a government official---presumably, the highest government official in the land, never mind that the presidency was not
intended to become a kind of elected monarchy. It is hardly sophomoric to ponder whether a man aspiring to the presidency and threatening those who
oppose him for nothing more heinous than that they
do oppose him would use the office as the
American Spectator writer cited in the original
essay describes, to attack those who oppose him for no good reason other than that they
do oppose him.
(I)f anything Trump is being kind. He could simply of released the dogs, instead he issues a warning. "Be ready to play for keeps if you wish to play this game against me"
That would be fine talk indeed coming from a man whom some of his supporters, seemingly, think should have a licence to attack without response, a man
who seems to believe he is or should be impervious to criticism or opposition. A man, too, who seems to think---very much like the incumbent he wishes
to succeed, to say nothing of the incumbent's predecessor government---that the Constitution is irrelevant to the need to get whatever it is he thinks
needs to be done, regardless of that pesky other law against which many have bumped and ignored to their and the country's peril: the law of unintended
consequences.
But I got it. Simply will not let go of the emotion based talking point and see reason.
If that is what you got, you got nothing.
