monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

Lots of "rather concerned" (read scared shitless) peeps out there, I'm thinking.

The prez ain't one of them.

Sociopaths like Plump

in a true democracy, woulda lost the election.

True democracy is mob rule. Our Constitution adjusts and prevents that kind of rule.

I think #45 is right to feel concerned - the old-skool conservatives seem to have run out of patience with him and don't care who knows

I feel like the NYT was taken for a ride or hoped they could catch a ride on Woodward's coat tails.

Outside of a very small few, the GOP machine has been consistently supportive of Trump.

"...If it does happen it's your fault, because you didn't go out to vote. "


"You didn't go out to vote, that's the only way it could happen."

The people who have settled on this course may not care about corruption or efficient government. But it is the risk of democratic accountability—that voters will punish Republicans—that really terrifies them. The way to keep the country and the world safe would be to allow the country’s democratic mechanisms to function: to come forward and explain what Trump is really trying to do publicly; let Congress and voters remedy the situation one way or another. But the political toll the Republican Party would suffer as a result would be severe.

The GOP governing class is trying to circumvent that penalty by creating a paper trail of innocent pleas. We lost our way embracing Trump, but we were also the ones holding things together. Without that narrative laid in advance, there’s no place in a post-Trump GOP for any collaborators.