The Supreme Court, Presidential Immunity, and the Implacable Tide

“There is a tide in the affairs of men,” said my last posting, about the presidential debate, quoting Shakespeare. The debate debacle one more episode in what feels like an implacable dark tide, the doing of a perverse God. Sweeping away what America has meant.

Our politics had often before been roiled, most notably in the Civil War era. Yet even then, somehow the nation’s basic civic compact actually held. With indeed a normal presidential election — whose result the loser ...