CONRAD BLACK: U.S. Was Closer To Coup D’Etat Than Ever Before. “The Russian-collusion argument was always an absurd, a practically insane proposition. The fact that it enjoyed the currency it did as long as it did illustrates the cognitive incapacity of the Obama-Clinton majority to accept that they were honestly defeated in 2016. Worse than that, while it was just mad partisanship by most Democrats and most of the political press, the collusion fraud was a crime, of extreme gravity, by its perpetrators.”

There must be consequences sufficient to deter future such efforts, for individuals, for institutions, and for the Democratic Party.