The lack of oversight is not the fault of Donald Trump...

[JHB]

2. None of what he's doing is sleep-walking...

Bending the courts to serve a hard-line conservative ideology has been a long-term project since the days of "Impeach Earl Warren." The aim is to affect court decisions by affecting who makes those decisions.

Whether it's due to his own personal ideology, serving his big-ticket donors, or a mix of both, none of this stems from a lack of awareness about precisely what he's doing.

And Republicans abandoned being Americans long ago. Or, rather, they convinced themselves that they were the only Americans, and nobody else counted. Much like the Confederates did.