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I hesitate to make any predictions about that because I have been wrong about it so often in the past. “Surely,” I have thought, “this is it. The American people will not stand for this.”

But then they do. James Comey was OK. So was Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith and Michael Sussmann. The FBI does something outrageous. There are little eructations of unhappiness. Then people go back to their lattes and put it out their minds.

Will the astonishing raid on Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence, be the line in the sand, the Rubicon, the straw that broke the camel’s back? Maybe. Just possibly.

Probably not.

But maybe. The volume of the response this time has been turned up. Everywhere one looks, eyebrows are raised. Concern — make that “deep concern” — is being voiced. As is so often the case, it’s the little things that push people over the edge. The news that the G-Men, in addition to carting off boxes of documents, also rifled through Melania Trump’s personal wardrobe struck many people as especially outrageous. Are we about to see some of those agents wandering around with the former first lady’s underwear? I wouldn’t put it past them.

Dems’ whole remaining strategy for 2024 is to make people believe Trump does not support American democracy. Propaganda/journalism/TV hearings failed to sway many minds. To succeed, it’s going to require something real, an actual court finding Trump actually guilty of an actual crime that meets the expectations set after flinging around words like “treason” and “sedition” like angry monkeys. Some goofy tax problem in a state court or empty process crime will not be enough. It is hard to imagine Trump taking with him some classified documents will be enough, despite the high-profile raid on Mar-a-Lago.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/merrick-garland-is-the-mar-a-lago-mystery-man/

Dems’ whole remaining strategy for 2024 is to make people believe Trump does not support American democracy. Propaganda/journalism/TV hearings failed to sway many minds. To succeed, it’s going to require something real, an actual court finding Trump actually guilty of an actual crime that meets the expectations set after flinging around words like “treason” and “sedition” like angry monkeys. Some goofy tax problem in a state court or empty process crime will not be enough. It is hard to imagine Trump taking with him some classified documents will be enough, despite the high-profile raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Some of these boxes contained sensitive material that may be so secret it's unknown if investigators will ever publicly disclose what information was found.