Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

Starting a global trade war in hopes of erasing all U.S. trade deficits is like starting a healthy person on massive doses of chemo to cure a cancer they don’t have, Nick Catoggio writes: