2/2 substantive issues, such as healthcare, remains to be seen.

What is no longer in doubt, however, is that Trump is in full retreat and, therefore, poses an existential threat to a party that consistently placed cult loyalty above country, the rule of law, truth, and simple decency.

2/2 Men’s ability to adapt to modernity is being stymied by propagandists and grifters, who persuade men to adopt anti-social behavior, because doing so is incredibly profitable.”

2/2 and so it will protect it. The result will be a democracy in name only.

Under the Roberts court, it won’t be enough to rewrite the rules of the game. The umpires are the problem.”

2/2 The Supreme Court should admit its error and restore the principle that no one, not even the president, is exempt from the rule of law.”

2/2 "The record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding."”

3/3 They think that the magic of words will always save them, that there will always be a next grift, that no crisis is so great that it cannot be turned to personal profit. This is true right up until the moment when it is not.”

2/3 Such actions only make sense to people who are inside the grift and confuse their own position with reality.

The president and vice-president do not know the history of people like themselves, or that of other republics that were needlessly brought down by men of their particular sort.

2/2 Authoritarianism feeds on fatigue; democracy survives on memory. We have to keep the record straight and the lights on. We need to make alliances, including with people and organizations that, in normal times, we would be adversaries on policy issues. It will be a long haul.”