Will Bunch: A raid at Mar-a-Lago and a race against fascism

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America crossed a point of no return with the stunning FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, with the hope that finally a crooked president can be brought to justice. Not a moment too soon, after a Dallas speech exposed Trump's slide into full-on fascism

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We all know that that the third Monday in February is Presidents’ Day, but it’s becoming clear that America ought to be celebrating Aug. 8 — the date that Richard Nixon announced he was resigning over Watergate, in 1974 — as Bad Presidents’ Day. Because this year, Donald Trump spent the day doing his darndest to remind the nation that Tricky Dick wasn’t the worst human being to sit in the Oval Office.

The morning began for the 45th president with a scathing leak from an upcoming book about Trump’s relationship with his military brass, in which he reportedly asked them “Why can’t you be like the German generals?” — the ones who were loyal to Adolf Hitler. Not to be outdone, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman then released a scooplet from her own about-to-be-published tome — photographic proof that Trump really did rip up documents and flush them down the toilet, rather than preserve them as required by law.

The back-to-back disclosures were a reminder of how Trump’s four-year regime degraded the presidency even as it steered the White House toward a crude authoritarianism, and also how we just can’t quit talking about The Former Guy some 19 months after he was practically dragged from the Oval Office. But it turned out the fireworks of America’s most memorable Bad Presidents’ Day in 48 years were just getting started.

Around 7 p.m. Monday, the nation’s already fragile body politic was shocked to learn that a team of FBI agents had descended on Mar-a-Lago, the faded Palm Beach mansion where a once-and-wannabe-future president resides in exile. The raid on Trump’s primary residence was confirmed by the short-fingered vulgarian himself in a lengthy online diatribe, in which POTUS revealed that the feds even cracked open his personal safe.

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