“…and we think it won’t happen again bc the first time we took a bone saw to a reporter seems to have had the desired effect and now no one speaks badly of me and I got an invitation to the White House.”

This idea that somehow rural areas underwrite metros is not only wrong, it’s entirely inverted — and yet it perversely animates basically every element of our current political life.

/3 So: the answer is nobody is going to stop the regime through normal, traditional, checks-and-balances, constitutional measures — at least not until we get a new and very different Congress.