Cohen In Prague

There was a piece in The New Yorker about whether this was the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.  It's an interesting argument, based mostly from a journalist's perspective of information and understanding rather than the nature of how politics works.  Most criticisms of it have latched onto the fact that there are only four ways for Trump to leave office: He resigns (nope), he dies (that's a lot of KFC to eat), he loses the 2020 election (probably) or he gets impeached and removed from office.  The last option is obviously the one people are focusing on, because there is so very little evidence that the GOP will actually do this.

Davidson's piece suggests that there is an informational tipping point in big stories.  He uses Iraq in 2003 and the financial markets in 2007 as examples. Eventually the facts will assert themselves in ways that even partisans cannot ignore.  Of course, partisans DO still ignore those facts.  There are still people, including the current National Security Advisor, who think Iraq was a success.  There are people, including the leading economic advisor to the president, who think Wall Street did nothing wrong leading up to the crash. 

While there could be an inflection point whereby the crushing weight of Trump scandals break through his 35-40% Firewall of Derp, I'm guessing the reckoning will wait until November.  I just don't see enough moral courage in Congressional Republicans. 

Martin Longman draws attention, as others have, to the fact that it appears we have evidence that Michael Cohen went to Prague in the summer of 2016, which would corroborate a major part of the Steele Dossier.  Namely that Cohen was the new contact between Russia and Trump after Manafort went down.  Presumably, this is the Smoking Gun.  This could be the evidence that proves direct collusion and conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.

It's worth noting that the FBI was investigating this before the election, but decided not to tell everyone, but did decide to announce that Huma Abedin got emails that time.  You may go back to praising James Comey now.

We are so far deep into Trumpistan that I don't know where the bottom is.  At what point to Republicans turn on this fantastically corrupt cabal of morons, grifters and incompetents?