I am no fan of Donald Trump. I am no fan of vigilante justice either.

“Lock him up!” in the context of a Kamala Harris rally is as obnoxious as “Lock her up!” was in 2016 at Trump rallies when he ran against Hillary Clinton and she was under investigation for posting classified information to private email servers.

It is abhorrent to our law and our way of life for a frenzied mob of partisans to incarcerate a political opponent. If a political figure commits a crime, like Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the question of guilt is left to juries and the question of sentencing to the courts. It is called due process, and it is the crown jewel of our legal system.

It is beyond question that Trump started this baleful trend in 2016. He now claims that he never said “Lock her up.” But he did, and that’s one of the many reasons I would never vote for him.

But with Trump having started it, it is now up to Vice President Kamala Harris to end the cries for his incarceration.

I suppose the criminal conviction of a presidential candidate on 34 felony counts is fair game for political comment, as it has never happened before in our history. Gov. Tim Walz in his Philadelphia debut was willing to make political hay. In a zinger that brought down the house, he said, “And make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump. That’s not even counting the crimes he........

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