Dec. 8 Open Thread: So What Do We Do With Him Now?

The overnight analyses are coming in, and the consensus is that the story is going where we always knew it would: Trump likely committed all the bad acts we have suspected all along, plus possibly ones we don’t know about yet. The SDNY outright accuses him as an unindicted co-conspirator in felonies. Here’s a handy play-by-play from prosecutors’ big week.

Which leaves the country in a predicament, as thispiece points out: The framers of the Constitution, who hated the idea of political parties, assumed self-interested members of Congress would act against a law-breaking president.

Michael Cohen apparently had a nice gig going before the feds caught up with him. He allegedly pocketed $4 million from corporations looking for “insights” into the Trump White House. In another milieu — say, New York real estate — this is called a “shakedown.”

The white supremacist who killed Heather Heyer with his car in Charlottesville’s Nazi riots was convicted of murder and is probably staring down the barrel of spending the rest of his life in close quarters with people he thinks he’s superior to.