This fascinating article doubles as a pocket-guide to the Trumpist regime's Establishment collaborators:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

After Chamberlain sold him out at Munich, Czech president Edvard Beneš resigned his office. I'm thinking today of his understated, prescient farewell:

"Do not expect from me a single word of recrimination against anyone whomsoever. One day history will judge and pronounce sentence in all equity."

It's a remarkable state of affairs when a member of Congress needs anonymity to say that the Treasury Secretary is in charge of the Treasury Department.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

This, for example, is not the sort of thing you say about a country with a functioning Constitutional order:

Ah yes, just another fight over visions, like Reagan and Tip.

FDR rode to his inauguration beside a stewing, silent Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt, desperate to break the tension, spotted the brand new Commerce Department building Hoover had constructed on Constitution Avenue. "Lovely steel!" he chirped enthusiastically. Hoover said nothing in reply.