Slate good read - "Tyranny By Blunder" (it's about junior and his russia troubles)
The latest revelations show the Trumps never had a master plan to subvert American democracy. It just comes naturally to them.
By Yascha Mounk
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_good_fight/2017/07/donald_trump_jr_exemplifies_the_authoritarian_incompetence_of_his_father.html
One of the most underappreciated blessings of living in a liberal democracy is that citizens usually don’t have to parse or propagate conspiracy theories to keep abreast of political developments. If you live in a monarchy, a theocracy, or a dictatorship, you know that the state will try to conceal some of the most basic political developments from the public. Under those circumstances, wild speculation is not irrational; it is a reasonable response to a highly secretive and (more often than not) deeply corrupt system.
It says a lot about the sorry state of the American republic, then, that all of us have been forced to engage in the same kind of conspiratorial speculation over the past months. Circumstantial evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign kept piling up. There was plenty of reason to wonder whether Trump’s team had actively worked with the Kremlin. It was impossible not to become obsessed with semisubstantiated, semiparanoid theories.
So, strangely, I felt a sense of relief when, earlier Tuesday, the wildest and least plausible of the conspiracy theories that had been swirling around was finally confirmed: We now know that the most senior members of Trump’s campaign were willing—even eager—to deploy illegally obtained information about their adversary. They sought to do this despite knowing full well that the information was being provided to them by a hostile power.
The self-incrimination couldn’t have been more blatant. During the 2016 campaign, the president’s son and adviser, Donald Trump Jr., was offered what was described to him as “very high level and sensitive information” about Hilary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
snip - more at the link