Fred Kaplan discusses how Trump and those around him have decided to pretend that Article I of The Constitution doesn't exist or that Trump has the power to override it…or something. This is another one of those "If Obama had done that…" matters.
Most of the writers over at the American Conservative website seem pretty unhappy with Trump engaging Iran as he has, and also with the position that Congress has no right to declare or stop war, nor should they even be providing oversight over the Executive branch. Here's Daniel Larison, again saying a lot of the same things Fred Kaplan is saying. Also, read Rod Dreher.
Yet another investigation of Hillary Clinton — this one urged on by Mr. Trump — has failed to find any trace of those actual crimes that her detractors claim were so obvious and undeniable. I remember some of them, when Trump was elected, saying it was only a matter of weeks until Ms. Clinton would be doing hard time. And you have to kinda think there's nothing Donald would love better than Hillary in the slammer unless it was throwing Barack in there with her.
And you may remember that I've said here, probably on more than one occasion, that one of the phoniest, nastiest accusations anyone can make in the political world is to say that someone "hates America." It's like, "Never mind what he's said or done. I've looked into his heart and I know he hates America." And I think I also wrote about the similar hollow insult that was hurled at so many folks who opposed the Vietnam War and wanted to bring our troops home, soon and safe. That was the charge that "they hate our troops." Well, now we have Republican senators saying that "Democrats love terrorists." It's another thing you say about some opponent when you have nothing real to say about them.