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The deeper problem wasn’t just the inconsistency; it was the dissonance between rhetoric and lived experience. Millions of Americans do not evaluate the Department of Justice through press releases or campaign speeches—they remember the raids conducted under Garland and Biden’s watch. They remember parents and activists subjected to legal intimidation for exercising their constitutional rights. They remember public figures and ordinary citizens alike who felt the shadow of selective enforcement loom over their daily lives. To present this DOJ as independent in the face of those experiences is to ask the public to forget, or at least ignore, the recent record. It’s not merely a gaffe. It’s an attempt to overwrite history with a narrative that doesn’t withstand scrutiny.
