... and still no Russian connection
"There are so many pieces to this picture, and so many of them point to Russia.
"The criminal Oliver North, the illegal arms dealer convicted of three felonies related to his cover-up of the Iran-Contra deal, is now the head of the NRA.
"Bloomberg News reported last month, 'The NRA’s
relationship with Alexander Torshin, a Russian politician and deputy governor of Russia’s central bank who has been
linked both to Vladimir Putin and to Russian
organized crime, is too troubling to ignore.'
"The organization seems to have received money from Russia, including this sanctioned oligarch, and it certainly gave a lot of money to Trump.
"There are weeks where every day a scandal erupts that would have been the defining crisis of previous administrations, and they pile on top of each other, obscuring the ones beneath.
"Amy Siskind, in her book
The List, has tried to compile all the not-normal creeping-authoritarianism of the Trump era, but her project is itself almost too vast to comprehend."
Rebecca Solnit: The Coup Has Already Happened