This piece from 2013 is still astute about the issues at stake in the IRS scandal:
He makes an important point about the power of weaponized justice:
Mark Steyn: The Lois Lerner Defense
Plus, here is an insight hidden in plain sight that completely escaped the best minds in the MSM:
When the most lavishly funded government on the planet comes after you, eventual guilt or innocence is irrelevant: The process is the punishment.
Americans are fearless if some guy pulls some stunt in a shopping mall, but an IRS assault is brutal and unending. Many activists faded away, and the media began writing stories about how the Tea Party had peaked; they were over; they wouldn’t be a factor in 2012. And so it proved. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out the other day, the plan worked.
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