Excellent point by David Graham: “In a way, Trump has fallen victim to his own trick. During his first campaign and his presidency, he would introduce some astonishing concept, weather the initial backlash, and then repeat it until the population had become numb to it… And after all, it was Trump who first normalized the idea of prosecuting a rival presidential candidate.”
The article this was lifted from; paywalled, but here it is anyway: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/trumps-manhattan-grand-jury-invite-signals-big-shift/673355/