Why the Political Grift Won't Stop

It didn't take long after New York Attorney General Letitia James announced her $250 million fraud lawsuit against the Trump Organization for Twitter's toy cannon brigade to strap into their Aerons, crack their knuckles, and start issuing proclamations that the walls around the 45th president were finally closing in.

"The noose is tightening on Trump," American Enterprise Institute emeritus scholar and D.C. think tank lifer Norman Ornstein exulted: "Decades of grifting, corruption, rank criminality coming to an end." Mueller-investigation attorney turned MSNBC contributor Andrew Weissmann seconded the thought: "that sucking...