Donald Trump continues to delay any reckoning of and with his crimes. He has been getting away with this all his life. I believe that the failure to bring Trump to justice is yet another sign of the collapse of American democratic government. How is the American government to protect itself against those who would destroy it when it is wholly incapable of defending itself? Trump’s lawyers have obtained a stay of the lower court’s opinion, and will now seek a hearing before the appeals court, and if he strikes out there, it’s off to the Supreme Court. If the Trumpites on the Supreme Court enable Trump’s escape from justice, that will be the Republic’s epitaph.