This is a winning technique that Trump introduced well before he was elected. Instead of small admissions of guilt (Nixonian limited hangouts, after which this blog is named), we have a cycle in which Trump and his cronies get caught, and then act like getting caught solved some sort of problem (hey, Ukraine got their weapons, as they requested), and/or brush off the crime as either “victimless,” or a “process crime,” and then move onto the next crime.

The opposition party doesn’t know how to stop the cycle. Nor does the news media, but that isn’t their job. And besides, most of them are stuck reporting the news as if this Internet era that we live in is still new.

This is the story of Trump's entire life. He has never been held to even a medium standard, and he has always been allowed to get out of trouble, or not suffer any consequences for his wrongdoing. That’s the whole theme of a painful yet short book I read this summer.