Give credit where credit is due: Donald Trump has been on an incredible geopolitical, legal and legislative roll of late, as the Hill, NY Post and NYT rightly point out. I wish it wasn’t true. But there it is. And all of it aided and abetted by many people who deep-down know better. …

… Btw: I was talking to some friends the other day, all of us moderate-liberal boomers, and we wondered how long it would take before Trump’s spell over Republicans/conservatives was broken. We estimated about 20 years. We arrived at that number by calculating how long it took for a majority of Republicans/conservatives to finally admit the Iraq War didn’t exactly turn out as planned, i.e. 13 years. An extra 7 years was tacked onto the Trump-spell calculation due to the obvious blind devotion quotient that’s going to make it far more difficult and embarrassing for many to admit past mistakes.