In the wake of James Comey’s indictment, Democrats like Richard Blumenthal and Eric Swalwell are issuing dark warnings with a straight face that “what goes around comes around” and that anyone who cooperates with Donald Trump’s “vengeance prosecutions” will face retribution when Dems are back in charge.

But their threats fall on deaf ears because they started it. Democrats long ago weaponized the justice system against their political opponents.

Let us count the ways.

On Joe Biden’s watch, Trump faced four separate indictments with 88 criminal charges; more than 1,500 Trump supporters were arrested and over-prosecuted in the J6 investigation; Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were jailed for contempt of Nancy Pelosi’s J6 star chamber; Trump adviser Roger Stone was arrested at dawn in a heavy-handed SWAT raid; Comey entrapped Trump National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn; the DOJ, FBI and IRS covered up Biden corruption and jailed whistleblowers Gal Luft and Alexander Smirnov. To name a few.

Conservatives of every stripe were under legal assault. The FBI spied on school board meetings and Catholics at Latin Mass.

FBI agents were subjected to politically motivated loyalty tests to weed out those suspected of supporting Trump.

Joe Biden pressured AG Merrick Garland to investigate Trump and lay off his son — only he did it through anonymous leaks to The New York Times rather than out in the open on Truth Social.

“James Comey deserves our utter contempt for the damage he did to our system of justice along with the rule of law in America,” says Flynn.

Like Comey, Flynn was charged with making false statements to government officials during an official proceeding, Flynn to the FBI, Comey to Congress.

In January 2017, days after Trump took office, Comey sent two FBI agents to visit Flynn, the newly appointed national security adviser, to question him about legitimate phone calls he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak after the election.

Flynn was charged with making false statements to the FBI, which he denied, but when prosecutors threatened to charge his son, he pleaded guilty.

“I sent them [the agents],” Comey bragged of his violation of policy, in an on-stage interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.

“Something I wouldn’t have done or got away with a more organized administration, in the George W. Bush administration, for example, or the Obama administration,” he said. “[But] I thought: it’s early enough, let’s just send a couple of guys over.”

The audience laughed.

For Flynn, a military veteran, and patriot, whose advice Trump never got the benefit of, Comey’s idle abuse of power led to years of torment.

He lost his house, his business, and most of his savings fighting the case before Trump pardoned him.

“What he did to my family, the Trump administration and to the people of America is unforgivable,” says Flynn. “He should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.”

Another Trump intimate, Roger Stone, was charged with the same offenses as Comey: making false statements to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding, like Flynn over fake Russia collusion allegations.

Yet, unlike Comey, Stone wasn’t afforded the genteel route of turning himself in to authorities at his leisure.

In the predawn darkness of Jan. 25, 2019, a heavily armed FBI SWAT team stormed Stone’s house with a CNN camera crew in tow to capture his distress as he and his wife were marched outside in their pajamas at gunpoint. Stone lost his home, his savings, his insurance and even his car in the endless legal saga, which also only ended when Trump pardoned him.

“There is no better example of the two-tiered justice system,” says Stone.

“The judge issued a broad gag order preventing me from defending myself in public, arguing that my public defense could ‘taint the jury pool’ which, of course, does not explain why she left the gag order in place after my conviction, and after I was sentenced,” he says, wondering, “Why is there no gag order on James Comey?”

Good question. As soon as he was indicted last week, Comey posted a self-righteous, self-pitying video on Instagram declaring his innocence and posing as a Resistance hero.

“My family and I have known for years that there are costs for standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees,” he said.

Peter Navarro, another senior adviser in Trump’s first administration, was jailed last March for four months for defying a congressional subpoena from the J6 committee, the first time in 40 years that anyone has been sent to jail for contempt of Congress.

Like Stone, Navarro wants to know why Comey is being treated with kid gloves in contrast to his own brutal arrest in 2022 at Reagan National Airport as he boarded a plane for Nashville.

Navarro was handcuffed, shackled in leg irons, strip-searched and thrown in a jail cell.

“How come Comey is allowed to self-surrender when they sent five armed FBI agents to take me down?” he asked.

“My message to the Republican National Convention the day I got out of prison was simple: If we don’t hold them accountable, they will do it again,” says Navarro, who just published a book about his ordeal: “I Went To Prison So You Won’t Have To.”

“They include not just Comey but [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, [James] Clapper, [Lisa] Page, [Peter] Strzok, [Rod] Rosenstein and the FBI agent who put me in leg irons, Walter Giardina,” he says. “No martyrs among them, only perpetrators.”

He could have added other devious former coup plotters, such as CIA Director John Brennan, New York AG Letitia James and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff, who are currently under investigation.

Steve Bannon is another former Trump adviser attacked with Democrat lawfare who, like Navarro, was jailed for contempt of Congress.

He describes the Comey indictment as merely “an appetizer for a full meal we are going to ram down the throat of the Deep State.”

“The internal enemies of our country better lawyer up because justice is being served in the best way possible — cold and hard.”

Back when the shoe was on the other foot, the same Democrats and their media handmaidens who are now hyperventilating about Comey getting the start of his just deserts, couldn’t wait to get to a microphone to say: “No one is above the law.”

Even when the FBI conducted an armed raid on the home of a former president — Trump’s Mar-a-Lago — and rifled through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer, Dems just smirked and said: “We believe in the rule of law.”

So spare us the outrage.

The indictment of Comey is only “unprecedented” in the sense that Republicans have not played the game before.

Now they’re on the field and it’s scorched earth time.

Expect more indictments as soon as this week.

It’s not revenge. It’s accountability. It’s a necessary squaring up, evening the ledger, building deterrence.

As Trump said last week: “You can’t let this go on. They are sick, radical left people, and they can’t get away with it.”