Fears of retaliatory prosecutions by Republican administrations are misplaced. Modern Republicans not believe Democrats have a legitimate right to hold office and that political liberties are limited to Republicans only. The next Democratic president to hold office while at least one chamber of Congress is in Republican hands will be persecuted/prosecuted regardless of what Obama does now. No amount of appeasement now will make the GOP act in good faith in the future.
Republican abuses of power have been getting progressively worse since Nixon. If the line is not drawn at using torture to invent reasons to launch an offensive war, then there is no line which future Republican administrations will be dissuaded from crossing. Given that the GOP will persecute Democrats at every opportunity, the gate towards lawless administration power is a gate to hell that must be closed at all costs. The survival of American democracy depends on it.
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