For the first time in re­cent memory, the Drudge Re­port went rogue Monday night. The site, typ­ic­ally a re­li­able ag­greg­at­or of pro-Trump news and opin­ion, splashed a front-and-cen­ter pic­ture of the Krem­lin along with the head­line “THE E-MAIL.” Linked was the New York Times bomb­shell story re­port­ing that the pres­id­ent’s son was aware that his meet­ing with a Rus­si­an at­tor­ney was “part of a Rus­si­an gov­ern­ment ef­fort to aid his fath­er’s can­did­acy.”

It’s a re­mind­er that, as loy­al as Trump’s base ap­pears to be, his sup­port is not guar­an­teed to last forever. As un­in­ter­ested as av­er­age voters sound about the gush­er of Rus­sia news, the sheer pos­sib­il­ity that the pres­id­ent’s fam­ily and cam­paign staff know­ingly met with Rus­si­an op­er­at­ives to gath­er dirt on Hil­lary Clin­ton is bound to break through the sum­mer slum­ber. It’s easy to for­get that Don­ald Trump has been pres­id­ent for less than six months. His­tor­ic­ally, it takes time for a pres­id­ent to bleed sig­ni­fic­ant sup­port from his own party. Even Richard Nix­on main­tained ma­jor­ity sup­port with­in his own party up un­til his resig­na­tion.