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The book on how to indict an ex-president has not been written--until now. Chapter One was by Alvin Bragg. Ch. Two was by Jack Smith, informed by Chapter One. Ch. Three, likely by Fani Willis, will be informed by the other two experiences. So by the time we get to Ch. Four...
which is probably the most consequential of the cases, about how Trump led an insurrection against the US government and a systematic effort to defraud American voters, there will be quite a lot to draw on, to help get each element right.
What is more, the shock factor will have been degraded quite a bit. The pearl clutching of Trump's supporters will be even less credible. There arguments that somehow Trump is being wronged will appear dramatically weaker (and they appear pretty darn weak now.)
Further, the cumulative effect of all these cases will be that much greater than the impact of any one of them, big as each has seemed to be so far. Independent voters and any Republican with a shred of decency and patriotism left, will see the danger and criminality of Trump.
All of which is to say, we're still in the first phase of this story. We have, very likely, four sets of indictments and we're only half way through them. That will be followed by four trials. They will each be accompanied by new revelations that may in fact, lead to new cases.
There is a big wave of evidence against Trump that is going to turn into a tsunami. We can't know the exact impact on history except that it is likely to be much greater than we know. And we also can expect, contrary to the punditerati, that Trump is well and truly cooked.
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