'Sore loser' Trump hammered by conservative for forcing the Supreme Court into a corner

  (Raw Story) : In a surprising column posted at the conservative National Review, Donald Trump was dragged over the coals for refusing to take part in the time-honored tradition of the peaceful transfer of power after an election loss and for forcing the Supreme Court to intervene. With Trump currently embroiled in a criminal trial in Manhattan tied to buying silence from an adult film star before the 2016 presidential election, court watchers are awaiting a ruling from the nation's highest court on the limits of presidential immunity. According to the National Review's Christian Schneider, it should never have come to this and the the former president — and political outsider — has willfully failed to understand the "unwritten rules." ALSO READ: Trump’s Manhattan trial could determine whether rule of law survives: criminologist Along those lines, the columnist accused Trump of being a "sore loser," and fretted that the Supreme Court will plunge future presidents into a morass of what is legal and what is illegal after assuming office. Referring to the "social contract" civilized society requires for existence, he wrote, "This 'social contract' involves all the things we do, not because a law or rule directs us, but because these behaviors are necessary for society to function. Call them 'courtesy' or 'norms' or 'etiquette' or 'customs' or 'mores' — they are the unwritten rules that lubricate the political and social machine, allowing people of different opinions, backgrounds, and incentives to ..