However, there are those in and out of the party who admit to themselves, even if not publicly, that it was Harris (as a terrible campaigner, and worse) and the way the Democrats and their sycophantic media resisted Trump; not that they did it, or that the party has intentionally lost touch with mainstream America.

Other than continually calling Trump all sorts of horrible names and trying to scare the bejesus out of voters about all of the terrible things he was going to do to them and the country if he regained the presidency, the use of lawfare against the former president was their biggest mistake. The multiple attempts to END TRUMP this way couldn't have failed more spectacularly. 

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George Washington University Law School professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley opined in an op-ed which was posted to Fox.com on Wednesday (emphasis, mine): 

The problem with the lawfare campaign is that it did not just treat the law as an extension of politics, but treated the public as chumps. A large part of the public saw these cases for what they were: the use of motivated judges in favorable jurisdictions for political advantage.

These same figures claim to be "saving democracy." 

The result was that liberals convinced many citizens that democracy was at risk… from them. What they saw was efforts at ballot cleansing to remove Trump and other Republicans from the ballots. They saw raw lawfare in New York courts. They saw Kamala Harris and other Democrats supporting an unprecedented system of censorship that one court called "Orwellian."

Whether or not Democrat voters realize that the use of lawfare against Trump helped him rather than hurt him in the election is irrelevant. As Turley wrote on JonathanTurley.org, "Lawfare warriors express regret but not remorse after [the] election."

While some figures on the left are expressing doubts over the efficacy of weaponizing the legal system, it is doubtful that we have seen the end of it. They are only regretting that it did not work.

Bingo. And quintessential left-wing groupthink. The left never regrets its attempts to circumvent everything from the Constitution to the law of the land to fair elections; Democrats only regret getting caught.

'Reimagination'

Given the truism that the left only regrets getting caught, it seems only logical (to them) that "next time," they must try different tactics or strategies, lest they fail again.

Turley put it this way, with respect to "lawfare warriors":

“Reimagination” is rarely a form of self-examination, let alone self-criticism. That is evident in some of the most recent writings of lawfare warriors. They are like wandering Ronin samurai, warriors who lost not just their master but their purpose. What they seem to lack most, however, is principle. Whatever “reimagining” occurs, it should start with a recognition that lawfare was an abuse of the legal system for political ends.

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In his new column “Liberals Bet They Could Beat Trump With the Law," [Yale Law Professor Samuel] Moyn regrets the lawfare, not because it distorted the law and weaponized the legal system, but because it did not work.

He even quotes Benjamin Wittes, who helped create the Lawfare website, which was used, in Moyn’s words, “to hem in Mr. Trump.” Wittes wrote, “I have no interest in recriminations.” Perhaps, but the public does.

And there it is. Leftist elites smugly admit it.

The Bottom Line

The 2024 presidential election, along with multiple down-ballot elections, conclusively showed that a majority of mainstream Americans are fed up with the left's identity politics, Obama-esque politics of division along both race and class lines, and that lawfare, which the likes of New York Attorney General Letitia James, Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fanni Willis, and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland surely thought would take down Donald Trump, have no place in America.

How long will it last? That's another story -- make that a lot of other stories -- to come.

For now, I'm out.