Yale Prof Concedes Left’s Efforts to Destroy Trump Have Failed

“The professor explained that liberals have put too much focus on the legal system to pursue their agenda.”

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Is this why we haven’t seen much in the way of protests? Does the left know they’ve been beat?

Yale professor concedes in NYT opinion essay: ‘Yearslong effort to vanquish’ Trump was a ‘dismal failure’

Yale University law professor Samuel Moyn admitted on Friday that the legal efforts to stop President-elect Donald Trump over the past several years have failed and only made him stronger.

Moyn made the declaration in a New York Times guest essay, adding that liberals need to shed the strategy of trying to use the law to stop Trump during his second term.

“The yearslong effort to vanquish Donald Trump in court was a dismal failure,” the professor wrote.

The Times published Moyn’s essay on the same day that Judge Juan Merchan granted Trump’s request to file a motion to dismiss the charges in New York v. Trump and removed Trump’s sentencing date of Nov. 26 from the calendar.

The news of Merchan’s ruling comes just days after Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith filing a motion to vacate all deadlines in his 2020 election interference case against Trump, a move that signals the case could be dropped entirely.

Moyn wrote that the courts failing to end Trump’s political career shows that “our search for political salvation primarily through the law has backfired.”

The professor explained that liberals have put too much focus on the legal system to pursue their agenda. He noted that while there have been some progressive victories in the process, they have not been able to use the law to stop their political opposition.

“While liberals saw breakthroughs afterward for women and L.G.B.T.Q. people, delivering progress more quickly than elections could, they failed to stop the conservative drift of American law,” he stated.

Specifically, Moyn criticized progressives for acting as if their use of the law was a matter of principle and justice, while “ignoring that their movement had mainly treated it as a weapon for legalistic political change.”