You make me feel like a prophet. At least 10 years ago I was posting that: we have become like Esau selling his birthright for a bowl of pottage. Things have deteriorated so badly that I have forgotten that.
Lee Smith is a blast from the past: a knowledgeable and wise journalist/writer. His book, The Plot Against the President singularly captures the flesh and scope of the conspiracy to overthrow a popularly elected president and the suppression of Devin Nunes's effort to expose it.
:^) See #38 above