There was a time when the Left reflexively sided with criminal defendants. Rapists like Huey Newton, terrorists like the Weathermen, and bank robbers like Angela Davis were "political prisoners." The System was used to crush dissent. The Left deemed police and prosecutors as the enemy. The rest of us saw prosecutors as our allies. The lust for power which is Leftism, however, has no fixed principles. It is a relentless insinuation into every aspect of life, a constant perversion of every institution of society, a toxin which keeps poisoning public life. Whole institutions have been swallowed in the maw of...