The Banana Republicans

I’ve been wondering how often a President has ended up at war with his own justice department. It probably happened with early Presidents, maybe Andrew Johnson, for example. In my lifetime we’ve had Nixon and Trump battling the justice department leadership they appointed themselves. In these cases the Presidents were—to be blunt—as crooked as coiled snakes, creating a problem for Attorneys General who enforce the law.

Today’s crookedness will likely turn out to be the worst case so far, because Crooked Spanky has the support of a new party, the Banana Republicans, who seem determined to destroy old Republicans like John McCain, Mitt Romney, Robert Mueller, James Comey and so on.