This stuff is truly scary… But it has been happening; one shudders to think where we’d be if the political tide hadn’t turned against the Bushies.

Or as a constitutional lawyer once said to me, “If Bush wasn’t such a screwup, the Republic would already be over.”

archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...

The Republican Party has been riding with the Four Horsemen: Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear, since Reagan.

I swear Trump actually believes this is one of the so-called "WARS" he's ended.

What the public does not understand about these retaliatory cases is that what is on trial is the ability for men to abuse their power against women without consequence. When women lose defamation lawsuits for speaking up, men win the right to abuse with impunity