It's almost as if the NYT read the latest Q drops and ran skeerd. Still agitating for people to panic and resort...to...uh...more powerful options........
Republicans have declared Trump their king and bowed to his maleficent majesty.
That means the only people left to prevent horrendous precedent, to make any attempt at presidential accountability, are the Democrats in the Congress. And, they are scared witless.
Democrats are operating from the Richard Nixon impeachment playbook, only this isn’t the 1970s, before cable news, the internet and social media. They think it’s somehow possible to overwhelm the public with evidence, to turn Trump’s devout base against him, to pressure the president himself into submission.
Wrong on all counts. None of that is going to happen. This is a new day. Democrats are trying to flex their muscle, to slowly build a case, but the cast is already being set.
They have opened a raft of investigations and even issued subpoenas, but Trump and his allies are executing a strategy of wholesale obstruction, refusing to comply in any way on any front. This is a severe challenge to Congress’s constitutional role of oversight.
The rest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/opinion/trump-imperial-presidency.html