How heartening to see a still robust US constitution as the net closes on Trump | Michael Goldfarb

It’s become commonplace to mourn the decline of American checks and balances. But watching Robert Mueller at work restores one’s faith

‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” America today is proof of TS Eliot’s assertion. The US is riven by competing media-created realities and led by a reality TV star. Result: the society seems to be coming apart.

But on Tuesday a reality that is based in fact and evidence asserted itself – with the simultaneous, split-screen announcements of guilt of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, in a Virginia courtroom, and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, in New York. This demonstrated that, for all the fear that the US is on some irreversible glidepath to authoritarian autocracy, the reality is that enough of its legal institutions still function. We are not there yet.

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