…or FTFNYT, as it’s fondly known in some circles, that safe harbor for so many “reasonable” conservatives like Bobo Brooks and Cardinal Douthat, an outfit with a deep-seated institutional loathing of the Clintons to rival boxley’s (pumping the email nothingburger during the campaign while simultaneously dismissing the Russian interference story) published a piece on Wednesday in which some possibilities are floated of the sort one seldom runs across in the MSM:
cordially,
The president is not done.I am inclined to agree with mmoffitt that we are likely facing years—I almost said decades, but I do not believe that the polity will endure the stresses for that long before it fractures—of increasingly violent oscillations in our public life, and that at some point, rather sooner than later, the brown shirts come out.
Soon, there may be indictments from Robert Mueller, the special counsel, of high officials or members of Trump’s family. What then? Ornstein’s nightmare scenario: Trump fires Mueller, pardons himself and everyone else, sends his followers into the street, and, after the inevitable bloodshed, declares martial law.
cordially,