Teflon Don Will Almost Always Get Stronger When Threatened More

Trump became more than a man — dude is a movement (argh).

Here’s another verse in “Let’s take down Trump” happening now in Miami and elsewhere, and the essays about it and cable news hits about it are massive, including this one:

Opinion | Republicans Keep Failing the Same Test

Within that, you get the same old narrative: Republicans should abandon Trump, because he’s (a) toxic and (b) too old, and also potentially dangerous — but they don’t, because right now they see him as their best chance of winning. We get the choice quotes from high-ranking Republicans who won’t leave the Trump hive:

“Let’s be clear about what’s happening: Joe Biden is weaponizing his Department of Justice against his own political rival,” said Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the №2 Republican leader in the House. “This sham indictment is the continuation of the endless political…