I'm A Journalist - I'm Not Robert

Donald Trump Seems To Think It Is Within His Rights To Trample The First Amendment, To Disdain The Press, To Punish Protesters Or Flag-burners, To Ban Ethnic Categories Of Immigrants, And So On.

Speaking To The Subject Is The Most Overrated Thing In Journalism.

Disaster Can Take A Nation By Surprise, Slowly, And Then All At Once.

Democratic Institutions, Even In The Oldest Operating Democracy In The World, Are Anything But Perfect.

My Deep Sense Of Alarm Has To Do With Donald Trump's Seeming Lack Of Fealty To Constitutionalism.