"No institutional counterweight ..."

Jay Cost is a conservative political analyst who writes for the right wing Weekly Standard. He can be annoying (and is here.) Not my kind of guy. But I think his warning in this series of tweets points to realities that we, progressives who are chortling about Trump and his minions tying themselves in knots about their Russian connections, forget at our peril.

Democracy dies when the spooks are a law unto themselves. All the more reason to demand a thorough, legal, and bipartisan investigation. Sure, at present, the GOPers want to hang on to their chance to grab all the goodies. But this, too, is about the survival of our semi-democratic polity.