Yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee’s show trial will be broadcast alongside Joe McCarthy’s. Two of the lowest points in our history, two the most nakedly authoritarian, directly indebted to the playbook of dictators everywhere.
As Rep. Schiff tweeted after yesterday’s debacle,
“Today’s hearing, in which the President’s allies sought to put Mueller, the FBI and DOJ on trial, again demonstrates that the greatest threat to our democracy is from within. Russia cannot tear down our institutions — only we can do that.”