vengeance

It’s early days and while the fog persists, some of the shape of the future is very clear: despite his felonies, his lies, his promised mass deportations and threats of vengeance, President Donald J Trump will re-enter the White House in 2025 better organized, with a clearer mandate, and with the seal of approval of the popular vote.

And his vengeance will be enabled by the Supreme Court opinion granting presidents broad immunity from prosecution.

In the wake of Nixon’s abuses, the country put in place a series of laws, regulations and norms designed to prevent government by vengeance.

Grand juries may not go along with prosecutions that reek of vengeance, and trial juries and judges are more likely to resist.

But the vengeance policy is what's going to animate Trump the most.