One thing I learned in years of writing books about the Trump administration is that if you make it your whole life to write about it there's quickly nothing more banal, insipid and fundamentally dull as the predictable corruption of the rich and the impossibility of consequences
Make no mistake about it, the ineluctable through-line of the Trump administration and everyone in Trumpworld is that being among the worst humans on earth can make you *very* rich and put you in a position to commit literal mass murder and face no consequences as Trump once said
I think too little attention has been paid to the theory that our political and legal and financial systems are literally not equipped to hold Donald Trump accountable in any meaningful way, and that our systems are actually designed to permit monsters like this to move unimpeded
An observation I've made from time to time is that the folks on Twitter who are most clearly struggling to deal with the Trump presidency in a way people find bewildering are lawyers—as we've been trained to trust in a system that at America's moment of need proved itself useless
