She loves the anti-Trump testifiers, except for the self-concentrated lieutenant colonel, whom she also would not invite, but detests Trump as mean and vulgar and hard to work with and declares him guilty beyond further consideration as having committed high crimes and misdemeanors.

Which have done or might have done what damage to the country? Weak on policy, strong on personal interaction, like a Henry James novel, she lays it all out, laying herself out for all to see.

via Trump’s Defenders Have No Defense – WSJ

The venerable Spectator of the UK, now also of the US, offers a perspicacious glance at one of our and Israel’s current events.

What a relief it is turn away from the maelstrom of American politics, and the endless speculation over whether Donald Trump asked for a quid pro quo in the hope of generating negative coverage about Joe Biden, to the placid backwater of Israeli politics, and the endless speculation over whether Benjamin Netanyahu asked for a quid pro quo in the hope of generating positive coverage about himself.

How refreshing it is to stop wondering whether the Ukraine-impeachment circus is merely an attempt to reverse the voters’ decision and spin the 2020 election by replacing democracy with judicial process, and to start wondering whether the Netanyahu-indictment circus is merely an attempt to reverse the voters’ decision and spin the 2020 election by replacing democracy with judicial theater.

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