The Accountability Gap

Chauvinism toward Europe is so fundamental to American identity that one can't envy European culture without feeling a bit unpatriotic.

I'm not much of a patriot anymore, though, so I'll cop to it. I envy the hell out of a country where an honest-to-goodness king feels obliged to cooperate with police as they investigate his own brother for corruption involving Jeffrey Epstein.

Try to imagine it happening here. Our own king doled out full pardons to his co-conspirators in a plot to overthrow the government and is presently at work turning the Justice Department into the legal arm of his mafia syndicate. No "made man" in the Trump family will ever pay for federal crimes they've committed or might commit, no matter how compelling the evidence might be. Every one of us knows it.