Here is some reporting from The Hill. Try not to spit out your coffee.

Republicans are warning that the unprecedented indictment of former President Trump on multiple charges sets a dangerous precedent that will lower the bar for future political prosecutions while putting the nation on a precarious slippery slope.

Some Republicans are comparing Trump’s indictment over crimes related to the payment of $130,000 to an adult film actress to the House Republican impeachment of then President Bill Clinton in 1998 on charges related to his affair with a White House intern.

So, they’re using the example of their own behavior in l’affaire Lewinsky to warn against overreach and a slippery slope? Does that mean they’re contrite and apologetic about impeaching Bill Clinton over a personal failing? Are they willing to say they were wrong?

Why would they? There’s about a zero percent chance George W. Bush would have become president if the country hadn’t been exhausted and disgusted by all the focus on President Clinton’s personality flaws. The ick factor got all over Al Gore and it cost him, so other than having a subpar midterm election in the 1998 midterms, hounding Clinton without mercy worked out brilliantly for the GOP, if not for the country.

Oh, but you say, they not talking about the merits or the politics of it all. They’re talking about the troubling precedent. After all, didn’t the Democrats respond by impeaching Trump twice? Are you just going to impeach every other president from now on out in perpetuity? Here we are trying to put an ex-president in prison. Where does it end?

They predict that indicting Trump will make future former presidents and other political figures more susceptible to politically motivated prosecutions.

What they mean is they are now motivated to politically prosecute former Democratic presidents, purely as revenge. Stop us before we kill again.

These crocodile tears are hilarious. At some point they’re going to have to come to grips with the fact that nothing about Donald Trump is normal. It could be centuries before we see someone so worthy of criminal prosecution serve in the presidency again. The man lost an election and tried to stay in power by force. Stop saying he sets a precedent for anything other than how a country deals with the aftermath of a coup attempt.

Showing leniency isn’t going to meet the test.