Commentary
With the midterm elections finally concluded in the usual string of Democratic successes in late-counted voting, the United States has reached a position of unprecedented political immobilization.
The Trump phenomenon isn’t dead, but it has stalled. The opposition to him from the Democrats and most of the pre-Trump Republicans is so fanatical that any hint, even a complete conjuration, of his starting down a path back to the White House unleashes a frenzy of vilification in the overwhelmingly anti-Trump national political media and a reactivation of the Democrats’ prosecutorial apparatus, officially the Department of Justice, which has essentially been a Trump destruction service for the last six years….