Yep, Trump did it again

The former president organized a high-level contingent of Republicans to attend his hush-money trial in Manhattan. The group included House Speaker Mike Johnson—whose speakership was recently saved by his Democratic colleagues. Unlike the others, he didn’t sit in the courtroom.
Just when it appeared that Donald Trump couldn’t go any further in his systematic deconstruction of American institutions—he did, writes Michael Harris.

HALIFAX—Just when it appeared that Donald Trump couldn’t go any further in his systematic deconstruction of American institutions, he did.  

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