I've been saying for a few weeks that eventually - once Mueller gets too close - Trump will simply start issuing pardons to people like Flynn, Kushner, Donny, Jr., and Manafort. He will eliminate the ability of Mueller to flip these people against him. Then, after closing down many avenues of investigation, he will fire Mueller (and likely Sessions and Rosenstein).
And there might very well be nothing we can do about it until 2018. Even then, while Democrats might win back the House, they will not get anywhere close to winning enough seats in the Senate to remove him from office.
Once again, we are going to have to rely on Republican politicians to do the right thing by their country rather than by their party. In other words, we are screwed.
As Chait and others note, this is an assault on the rule of law. That idea - that the powerful are not above the law, that the law is the expression of the popular will - is the critical idea that makes democracy possible. Without it, democracy collapses.
That's not hyperbole.
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