Senator Graham Signals a Coming Break

The constitutional crisis is accelerating. We are also at an interesting moment. President Donald Trump has said he will be impeached. For him this is now a given, and he needs to set the talking points. He needs to feed the base, and the meat needs to be extremely red, even dripping with blood.

He is not crazy. This is calculated to activate his base and blunt the effect of a constant water hose of news. The damn has broken, and revelations continue to accelerate. He also reversed his decision to host the G-7 meeting at El Doral in Florida, after he learned they were not able to defend him. He blames the media and the radical Democrats, however, it was Republicans. This is per the New York Times:

Launching into a series of attacks on Democrats, Mr. Trump said approvingly that they were “vicious and they stick together. They don’t have Mitt Romney in their midst — they don’t have people like that.”

”They stick together,” Mr. Trump added, during a lengthy question-and-answer session with reporters at a cabinet meeting. “You never see them break off.”

It was the second time in as many days that Mr. Trump — coming to terms with the fact that he will most likely be impeached by the Democratic-led House within weeks and face a Senate trial immediately after — has complained about a lack of support from…