are you seriously equating empty rhetoric to legal action?

Trump was an idiot who made himself an easy target for nobodies with no strategic bones in their body to go after him. note that his guilt or lack thereof is irrelevant, what matters is that legal action was initiated against a past president. this one action doomed the republic just like it did the previous Roman one.

There's a difference between campaigning on something and actually doing it.

Letitia James campaigned on putting her political opponents in prison and then proceeded to try doing so.

This isn't difficult to understand.