In four or eight years, we'll get another Trump.
A. An openly criminal president suffers terrible pushback, condemnation, impeachment
B. An openly criminal president gets to break all the rules and profit from it, for no real cost
And yet this last, impossible scenario is the one that Democratic leadership is banking on.
Instead, they're doing nothing, and hoping for the best. And that's going to determine the country we live in for the rest of our lives.
They're just too scared to act. They're paralyzed by fear - of Trump, of standing out, of Pelosi - and so they're hoping that maybe - maybe! - it'll all work out okay.
But it won't.