If each new administration in Washington takes it upon themselves to investigate, prosecute and incarcerate members of the prior administration, we are headed down the road to dictatorship. It won't be long before an administration chooses not to permit elections lest their successors imprison them.
As a nation, we don't want to descend to the level where each administration stashes stolen fortunes in Switzerland and flees to Brazil upon leaving office. That is the sort of thing Latin America is trying desperately, and with some success, to rise above.
We have snickered about this third world proclivity for decades. How embarrassing if we end up there ourselves.
