The Constitutional Crisis is Deep and Going to Get Worse

The Robert Mueller Report is coming out next week. It will indicate if there is a there, there. From multiple court filings, there is a there there. Precisely what is a good question. Mind you, most of the country is not paying close attention to every turn of the crisis. Like Watergate, this is not in the radar, because most Americans do not have time to follow the deep details of the crisis. Most Americans have jobs, and issues with healthcare, making flat wages go far, try to save in an increasingly precarious economy, and the cost of college.

This is why in places like Iowa and Ohio, far away from the media centers, the Mueller probe is barely registering. It is not because they are Trump strongholds, though some counties may be. It is simply life is hardly permissive of the ins and outs of an extremely complex investigation.

However, we are in a deep crisis of both democracy and institutions. Which brings me back to the core Trump supporter. Humans are particular and hate to admit that they were wrong. This is why by the end of Watergate you could barely find a Nixon supporter. I did, in 2002, and his reason was the opening of China. Admittedly that is a critical part of the Nixon legacy.

But there are critical differences from the Nixon years. For starters we had three news networks. All three covered the same information during the evening news. News papers also covered the matter in depth, with the Washington Post and to a lesser extent the New York Times…