Redacted Substack version.

Bear in mind that ‘redact’ (v.t.) has more than one meaning in English.  It can be used correctly, as I just used it, to mean: revise, although these days it is more commonly used to mean: delete or remove (private or sensitive information).

The same goes for ‘retribution.’ Although it can be correctly used to refer to revenge, it can also be correctly used to refer to retributive justice, which has nothing to do with revenge.

Leftists fear Trump’s retribution, as well they might, given what they have done to him. And they are right to fear it in both senses, especially the second sense: the miscreants will be brought to justice for their crimes against him.

Many of us will then succumb to schadenfreude.