What a country....................................

     Madison's genius was to understand that the best bulwark against tyranny was not virtue—virtue helps, but should never be relied upon—but ambition countering ambition, faction countering faction.
      You see it even in the confirmation process for Neil Gorsuch, Trump's supremely qualified and measured Supreme Court nominee.  He's a slam dunk, yet some factions have scraped together a campaign to block him.  Their ads are plaintive and pathetic.  Yet I find them warmly reassuring.  What a country—where even the vacuous have a voice.
      The anti-Trump opposition flatters itself as "the resistance."  As if this is Vichy France.  It's not.  It's 21st-century America.  And the good news is that the checks and balances are working just fine.

-Charles Krauthammer, from his 3/24/17 essay found in this book