The very idea of a preemptive pardon is shocking—the exact kind of norm breaking that the Democrats love to accuse Trump of. Think about what a preemptive pardon means: It is a tacit admission that the Democrats believe that Fauci or Schiff committed crimes—that there would be something to find if one went looking—but also that the Democrats will not and would never go looking there. In other words, if Biden issues these blanket pardons, he will be ratifying the idea that was so aptly laid out by Peru's General Óscar Benavides: "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."
It's a complete assault on the rule of law—an admission that the Democrats believe that justice not only is political but should be politicized. It sets an extremely dangerous precedent—from the side constantly yammering on about the dangers posed by Trump to our democracy. I guess we've arrived at the "doing away with the rule of law" stage of defending democracy!
Every accusation from the Democrats is a confession.
They say that Trump's appointees are hell bent on revenge. It is Republicans who plan to weaponize the Department of Justice and the FBI against Trump's political enemies—as though the Democrats didn't deploy the DOJ and courts across the country to attempt to imprison Donald Trump, in an obviously politically-motivated witch hunt. As though the FBI were not instrumental in covering up the Hunter Biden laptop story to help Biden win in 2020. As though the intelligence community didn't routinely collude with President Trump's political opponents to undermine him at every turn, both while he was in office and since.