Not very "Christian nationalist" of them (unless of course the "Christian" modifier was simply a convenient rhetorical fig leaf for ethnic nationalism)

I grew up in a (evangelical Christian) milieu rife with fearmongering about the persecution of Christians coming from The Left, over abortion and marriage equality, etc. Now it's coming from a president that those same evangelicals overwhelmingly supported and helped elect; they're largely silent.

Just a real tour de force of different ways to dodge real, meaningful moral responsibility while trying to make it seem like you've taken it

In some sense, the current GOP may have started as a "Trump problem" (I'm skeptical, and tend to view him as early symptom rather than cause, but it's at least a plausible story), but it is clearly no longer primarily a "Trump problem." And that's very bad!

For long-term recovery, voters *must* recognize that fact. Even if voters reject Trump but return power to GOP in future elections, while it is still pervaded by illiberal authoritarianism, the authoritarians will likely have enough chances to make authoritarianism stick. I'm not optimistic.

First, as dispositionally authoritarian as Trump is, he isn't *ideological* in the way that all of the plausible successors are. Second, to whatever extent Trump's approval is going down, I see little evidence that the relevant voters recognize the fact that the GOP is an authoritarian party.

I'm sure someone else has made this observation before me, but this seems to be the sort of "president commits murder under the guise of official duties" situation that we were told was an implausible hypothesis unworthy of consideration during the SCOTUS immunity decision?

/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.