One of the early choices every 2020 Democratic presidential contender will face is how to react the first time the audience at a campaign event breaks into the chant “Lock him up.”
That day likely isn’t far away now that prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, in Donald Trump’s own Justice Department, have formally implicated the president in two violations of campaign-finance law by Michael Cohen, his former attorney and fixer, who was sentenced to three years in jail on Wednesday.
Those allegations against Trump could add an extraordinary element of volatility to a 2020 presidential election that already looks poised to produce astronomical levels of both voter turnout and political polarization. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic