Americans are patient people who instinctively resist political efforts to take advantage of their patience. When that happens, voters have punished the Republican or the Democratic parties in subsequent elections, perhaps because their leaders failed to realize that Americans have a limited capacity to cope with a constant political diet of angst, vitriol, dread and apprehension.
Apparently now it’s the GOP’s time in the barrel, as two contentious issues suggest.
Its current targets are the FBI, the Justice Department and the IRS. And if Republicans fail to regain a majority in the House and/or the Senate, they will have only themselves to blame.
The FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate yielded a cache of classified documents that should have been turned over to the National Archives, as previous presidents have done upon leaving office. Officials at the nation’s intelligence agencies were immediately alarmed.
Last month, the FBI and the DOJ released the “probable cause” affidavit needed to obtain a search warrant to be presented at former President Trump’s Palm Beach estate.