hasn’t just become “ideologically extreme”; it is “dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”<br />So it’s naïve to expect Republicans to join forces with Democrats to get to the bottom of the Russia scandal — even if<br />that scandal may strike at the very roots of our national security.<br />Everyone understands that Mr. Comey was fired not because of his misdeeds during the campaign — misdeeds<br />that helped put Trump in the White House — but because his probe of Russian connections with the Trump campaign was accelerating and, presumably, getting too close to home.<br />But now we have what may be the real thing: circumstantial evidence<br />that a hostile foreign power may have colluded with a U. S. presidential campaign, and may retain undue influence at the highest levels of our government.<br />If so, the tax cuts that the richest 1 percent of Americans will receive if the Affordable Care Act is repealed — tax cuts<br />that are, obviously, the real reason for repeal — would amount to the equivalent of around 500 pieces of silver each year.<br />And the two leading Republicans in Congress are apparently O. K.<br />with that cover-up, because the Trump ascendancy is giving them the chance to do what they always wanted,<br />namely, take health insurance away from millions of Americans while slashing taxes on the wealthy.
