Commentary Students of scandalology like myself have been looking across the Atlantic lately. For some reason, the scandal-hungry American media has lapsed into somnolence since this time last year—about the time when President Joe Biden took office. I mean, of course, apart from occasional outbursts of vestigial rage directed at his predecessor in office —who is still seen as what The New York Times calls an “existential threat” to the Republic. Of course he is. The NY Times has been harping on the same string for more than six years and has seen a steady growth in digital subscriptions from fellow Trump-haters around the world over that period. Trump-as-existential threat is the paper’s bread-and-butter. Elsewhere, the scandal of Donald Trump and Trumpism isn’t selling so well as it used to do. Perhaps that’s one reason why CNN’s viewership has crashed into the cellar during the last year. Meanwhile, a hundred …