From nojo:
Many long national nightmares later, we have yet to escape this one, probably won’t for a couple years. But the days of utter hopelessness, the days of one elected branch of our government colluding with another to divest our republic of its sovereignty and our citizens of their liberty are coming to an end.
Nixon faced a House and Senate run by Democrats. Trump hasn’t had the pleasure of either.
We’re not there yet, and we’ve been worrying about what shenanigans might be pulled in the waning days of the 115th Congress, but the lame-duck session has yet to bear casualties. Meanwhile, Democrats are already squabbling over their incoming leadership, and—
Well, it’s refreshing, really. Familiar. Nice and messy, the way it was before the storm hit.
Politics as usual.
The problems laid bare over the past two years remain, of course — not just the traitors holding high offices, but the illegitimacy of those offices themselves, the very structure of our national government as a perversion of the consent of the governed. The ferocity of those who hold power to deny their own citizens the right to veto that power.
And, well, the citizens themselves, some 40 percent of them, more or less, the White Tribe that is the only tribe that matters in America.