If you think you have to let murderers free because of democracy, you don’t support democracy, you support murder.
An investigation ending in a jury trial is not, by any standard, despotic nor authoritarian.
However refusing to bring charges against someone in your same political class because they ran against you or might do so in the future absolutely is authoritarian and is the sign of an oligarchy wherein those with enough money are free from consequences.
If you think you have to let murderers free because of democracy, you don’t support democracy, you support murder.
An investigation ending in a jury trial is not, by any standard, despotic nor authoritarian.
However refusing to bring charges against someone in your same political class because they ran against you or might do so in the future absolutely is authoritarian and is the sign of an oligarchy wherein those with enough money are free from consequences.
If in 2020 Trump prevented Biden from running would you support that?
If Biden was convicted of a high crime, absolutely. That’s only be constitutional.
So if the courts who are the actual constitutional check said Biden could run you would support Trump stopping him?
The courts aren’t the check in the case we’re talking about, the jury is.