There’s a good argument that Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s Russian connections is the intentional result of a complicated Russian plot.  In that story, Russia wasn’t looking to elect their friend Trump, they were destabilizing and weakening their main adversary: America.

I find that the most compelling argument right now, and the most frightening.  It’s compelling because it matches the facts so much better.  Trump’s Russian connections are almost laughable easy to deconstruct.  They sent Mini-Trump a plain-text email titled “Russia – Clinton – private and confidential“.  Really?  Russia is very, very good at spying and secretly corrupting source.  Writing openly about “a meeting with you and The Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday,” is nobody’s vision of ‘tradecraft’.

I find the idea that they’ve destabilized America especially frightening, because I can’t see a good way out.  The Russian goal — for the Trump administration to be so tangled in investigations and scandals that they can’t get anything else done — is kind of my ‘best option’, too. Everything Trump wants to achieve is terrible, and I’m perfectly fine watching him flounder ineffectively.

So what do I do?  Push for Trump to get out from under that cloud?  Support mainstream Republican people like Jeff Sessions?  Trump and his appointees seem to make every decision using the “What’s the most evil option?” test.  And the alternatives (President Pence? Military insurrection?) are even worse.

I’m stymied.

But I won’t be surprised when Russia does the most disruptive things it can.  I expect to see more embarrassing disclosures show up in the press at the worst possible times.  I just don’t know what I should do about it.  Last thing I want is to free up Trump to start deporting Muslims, or one of his other hideous ‘victories’.