Introduction

Spencer Clavin: The most charitable reading of all of this that I can give is you're dealing with a set of the story that has now gone so deep that they can't even really see the extent to which it's it's confected. What we thought we'd do is try and ask, which way of viewing this whole scenario is more accurate or closer to the reality? Are we looking at a run-of-the-mill working of the American political system, albeit in extraordinary circumstances?"