The Hill’s Top Opinions: After the Mar-a-Lago raid, Trump and his followers may have a reason to feel paranoid

View Online  Opinion Thursday, August 25 ©  AP Good Thursday evening. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions.   It's hardly surprising that Donald Trump's most loyal supporters are convinced he's getting a raw deal in the wake of the FBI's raid of his home at Mar-a-Lago.   But they're not the only ones who think this. Many non-Trumpist conservatives believe it too, writes BERNARD GOLDBERG — conservatives "who wish Trump would take a vacation in Outer Mongolia and not come back until 2025, if then."   Goldberg, an Emmy and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award-winning journalist, writes that many thoughtful Republicans remember that "it was an FBI lawyer who lied to a judge to get a warrant during the investigation into Trump's supposed collusion with the Russians."   "If the FBI lied then," Goldberg hears conservatives asking, "why should we trust them now?"   "And why is Trump in the DOJ's crosshairs, they ask, while Hillary Clinton, who also was accused of mishandling classified documents, barely got a slap on the wrist?"   These conservatives are starting to "wonder if there's one set of rules for Republicans and another for Democrats."   These questions will persist at least until the Justice Department reveals more details about its justification for searching Trump's home, and probably long after.   Ultimately, "Trump supporters may very well turn out to be way off-base in what they think motivated the raid at Mar-a-Lago." Then again, "Just because you're paranoid, as the saying goes, doesn't mean they aren't after you."   Read Goldberg's op-ed here.   Not subscribed to The Hill's Top Opinions? Sign up here. More Top Opinions The CDC is broken, and apologies can't fix it By CARL SCHRAMM, member of the COVID Commission Planning Group It is not a small issue that CDC personnel undermined respected scientists outside of government who quarreled with mask mandates, social distancing, shutting schools, closing businesses, and promoting universal vaccination with serums whose known risks to some were downplayed. All this while dismissing Americans who doubted that the CDC had a monopoly on "the science." Read the op-ed here The media myth of Democratic momentum By JOE CONCHA, media and politics columnist Unless conditions on the ground change, don't expect the president's poll numbers or his party's dim prospects to change much as it pertains to control of the House of Representatives. The party in power almost always loses seats. And don't expect that to change in 2022, despite the euphoric headlines.  Read the op-ed here As monkeypox spreads, we must not repeat the failures of COVID-19 and HIV By RANIT MISHORI, professor of family medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine From mounting stigma and misinformation, to botched testing and vaccine rollouts, to the widening inequities in care, the parallels between Monkeypox, COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS should cause officials to reevaluate and redirect their approach to this latest public health emergency.  Read the op-ed here Ban the culture war from classrooms By WILL MARSHALL, founder and president of the Progressive Policy Institute Today's cultural warriors want to indoctrinate by telling kids what to think; our public schools should expose kids to facts and reasoned arguments and help them learn how to think for themselves. Read the op-ed here Quick Takes Student debt forgiveness is finally here   Is the border crisis an 'invasion'?   When judges sometimes change their spots   No, the IRA is not a carbon tax — but it would be cheaper if it were Stay Engaged The Hill's Top Opinions is written by Daniel Allott, an opinion editor at The Hill and the author of "On the Road in Trump's America: A Journey Into the Heart of a Divided Nation."   Views expressed by contributors are theirs and not the opinion of The Hill.   Check out The Hill's Opinion section online for the latest. Interested in submitting an op-ed? Click here. If you find this newsletter useful, please consider recommending it to others: thehill.com/opinion.  Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  Sign Up for Other Newsletters 1625 K Street NW, 9th Floor, Washington, DC 20006 © 1998 - 2022 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved.