As is often the case, the Wall Street Journal editorial board is straying from its lane to admonish Republicans and Trump supporters in a way that demonstrates the paper’s impressive capacity for shallowness.
The Journal on Tuesday joined the New York Times and the Washington Post in running editorials attacking President Trump for his sweeping pardons of Jan. 6 defendants and convicts. The paper called the pardons “a rotten message from a President about political violence done on his behalf” and decried them as a “stain” on his legacy. That’s more or less exactly what the Times and the Post said, but it’s useful to see that even an influential publication tangentially aligned with the political right can be so lacking in originality and acuity.
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