Treat the Coup Differently

Imagine Trump’s anti democratic efforts being successful, and act accordingly.

Illustration by Peter Ramirez.

We are all guilty.

Not of a crime, no. Of something else. Guilty of permitting an injustice in broad daylight. Blameworthy of allowing history’s dumbest and slowest-moving coup to drip downhill uninhibited.

We have given the president a pass because we know, at the end of the day, his…