Written with a vigorous emotional and intellectual resonance, Charles M. Blow’s columns are the best thing The New York Times regularly publishes on its Op-Ed. Today’s is especially sharp. Call it a rant if you want. I call it beautiful. I’m not going to comment further except to say huzzah! and right on! and hallelujah! for being able to read one person in the Times who minces no words. You gotta read the whole thing, but here’s an excerpt to tempt you:
When people behave as if they have something to hide, it is often because they do. For me, this is a basic law of human behavior.
That’s why President Trump’s baffling, outrageous, unfathomable and just plain bizarre behavior last week strengthened my already strong suspicions that there is something that Trump knows about the investigations into his campaign’s contacts with Russia that he doesn’t want us to know.
That is the only way that I can make sense of what happened: These are either the machinations of concealment, expressions of a burgeoning insanity, or both. [...]
Banking on an easy impeachment or resignation or a shiny set of handcuffs is incredibly tempting for those drained and depressed by Trump’s unabated absurdities, perversions of truth and facts and assaults on custom, normalcy and civility.
But banking on this is, at this point, premature. I share the yearning. A case for removal can most definitely be made and has merit. But there remain untold steps between plausibility and probability. Expectations must be managed so that hopes aren’t dashed if the mark isn’t immediately met.