Is the Trump fever starting to break?

Reasons to feel a bit better about our democracy

Friends,

I’m feeling a bit more secure about the strength of our democracy this morning, notwithstanding Donald Trump’s escalating rants.

For one thing, a large bipartisan coalition in both chambers of Congress just beat back the House MAGA Republicans’ attempt to shut down the government.

This was a major defeat for Trump, who had called a shutdown “the…