The real message of Bragg's case against Trump

It looks like Donald Trump is going to be arrested for having paid hush money to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign. Trump’s detractors—and there are many—are salivating at the prospect of his being fingerprinted and mug shot.

But there’s something considerably more important at stake here. The United States has never behaved like a banana republic, where the opposing party rushes to prosecute former leaders the minute it gains power. But with the Mar-a-Lago raid and these charges—which even some left-leaning legal analysts call trivial—that tradition’s evaporating.