fabric of american democracy. we re in this bizarre situation that trump is winning the gop primaries by infinity points and also facing these four indictments, running a campaign essentially outside a courtroom and all oof his rivals are in second place or are on life support and it is only august. the one thing that we can say about trump, his legal troubles right now are greater than his political troubles as reflected by the fact that his base continues to support him and because he perceives that, maybe his best chance to obtain immunity or avoid conviction is to be in the white house in a couple years. so i think his political and legal strategies morph into one and get subsumed by the political. so i expect him to continue to double down and to the extent that he does, it has again a sort parlor polarization. does it undermine when he