IF I WERE MEHDI HASAN, I WOULDN’T BE ENCOURAGING CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS IN GENERAL: Mehdi Hasan’s Demand for Prosecutions.

Here is Mehdi Hasan. He starts with: “I am only half joking when … say[ing] this,” and then he goes on to advocate that “the next Democratic President should run on a plan to prosecute Elon Musk.” (at 00:45ff). But he does not identify even any one crime. What does it mean to advocate a prosecution when you fail to identify any crime? What does he mean by a “plan”? Does it mean that the President should direct the AG and DOJ in regard to a particular prosecution against a named individual? That is what some call the unitary executive—something usually opposed by liberals in U.S. academia.

I should point out that Hasan’s aspiration regarding a future Musk prosecution is hardly a new thing. It is also the ambition of Ireland’s Fintan O’Toole and other elite editorialists in Europe.

They can’t answer their opposition, so they want to jail them. To them, opposition is the only real crime.