Pierce: What Would You Say If Anyone Else Behaved This Way? [View all]

[mcar]

As usual, the whole thing is well worth a read.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55023/trump-comey-madness/

...He just came up with it the other day. Jesus. Now I know why Kissinger was sliming around the Oval on Tuesday. He was probably teaching the president* the secret to talking to the portraits in the hall. Because, by all accounts in the nation's leading newspapers, the president* may be going, in the immortal phrase of the late George V. Higgins, as soft as church music...

Oh, that terrible moment when you look around and the nation's elite political press is fitting you for a straitjacket, and all the scapegoats have been stolen. It took the Vietnam War to destroy Lyndon Johnson. It took Watergate to make Nixon this batty. The current president* has been driven off the rails by a couple of tough episodes of Morning Joe. And there still hasn't been an actual crisis confronting him that he didn't create for himself. I am not reassured by this.

But just because he's barking mad doesn't mean he still can't do considerable damage, especially since the Republican Party, and especially its congressional majorities, remain invertebrate. The president* has made a point of assaulting every democratic institution that (theoretically, at least) could check his power...

It kills him, it absolutely rips out his liver, that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Whenever CNN goes to a commercial every night, he climbs down off the ceiling and stews endlessly about how that could happen. Of course, it couldn't have, not legimately, anyway.