It’s now clear that Donald Trump is far more severely impaired than even his worst critics imagined. And the cracks in his presumed governing coalition are starting to show, before he even takes office.
For starters, leading Republicans are pushing back on his insistence that he knows intelligence better than the CIA and challenging the idea that the U.S. should be a puppet of Vladimir Putin.
The best outcome, of course, would be for some constitutional Hail Mary pass to prevent Trump from becoming president: a group of electors who decide that he is just too much of a risk; or some kind of emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, to stay the election because its integrity and validity was hijacked by the Russians.
But, face it, this is magical thinking. Barring divine intervention, Donald Trump will take office on January 20.
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