“There’s nothing I can do,” two people lamented yesterday. Somewhere a Trump minion got their wings, or horns, more likely. Overwhelming us, discouraging us, and depressing us — that’s one goal of the flurry of executive orders, pronouncements and outrages…
The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...












