Some Republican senators make the A-Team look like The Wire
You have to hand it to the Americans. The know how to do those Senate Inquries. It’s a deeply flawed society in many ways. We don’t know whether it is heading for dictatorship, kleptocracy or kakistocracy or all three. Kakistocracy means ‘rule by the worst people’. It was coined in 1829 as the opposite to aristocracy - which means rule by the best people (although, unless they start marrying outside the family, aristocracy eventually means rule by the worst people also).
But while so many things look like they are going down the toilet there, every so often, the remnants of a republic, the creaky old wheels of a constitution ( the bits that don’t refer to being able to own a gun as soon as you are able to hold a spoon), grind into action.
