for a long, long time.
And the Democrats were instrumental in brokering it.
Rebecca Solnit at the Guardian reminds us of how Democratic bungling and enabling helped install Trump.
Obama “had power over the FBI, and might have installed senior staff who were more loyal to the country than the Republican party. As it was, the FBI smeared Clinton and protected Trump. The latter’s triumph was made possible at least in part by our current president’s dedication to positioning himself above the fray, projecting Olympian calm. This was a season during which he should have been asking himself what Lyndon Baines Johnson would have done, back when the Democrats were fierce fighters.”