The Raskin Fantasy Parade: Law, Triathlons, and the January CircusThe Last WireWhat is being sold as moral clarity increasingly resembles narrative theater. In Jamie Raskin’s telling, prosecution becomes performance, timing becomes virtue, and personal symbolism is elevated above the quiet disciplines that make law legitimate. The crowd is urged to cheer the intent, not examine the method.
This is how legal process gets repackaged as spectacle. Calendars are waved away, conflicts are reframed as courage, and any discomfort with the choreography is dismissed as bad faith. The audience is not asked to weigh evidence or precedent. It is asked to accept the story already written for it.
The January circus is not about whether the law can act. It is about whether it must act exactly this way, at exactly this moment, with exactly this cast. Once that question is forbidden, justice stops being a process and becomes a parade.
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