Essay man year. A new Cabinet has coalesced around Donald Trump entering Year Three of his presidency, one that seems poised to pull the United States further—and more efficiently—towards kleptocracy. But there is no way to make the death penalty compatible with the protections for defendants baked into our system of justice. There is no Republican who will vote to remove the president*. The prion disease has now eaten away all of the party's higher functions. Show this, and a report out of Virginia, to folks who think the fever will break when Trump is gone. When Trump is gone, we can't shove what's happened down the memory hole—like we did with the Bush torture program. The world's most powerful man called into a TV show to rant about a server in Ukraine, a haunting demonstration of his inability to process what constitutes observable reality.