If you wondered what that shrill, high-pitched wail you heard late yesterday afternoon was, it was the sound of millions of MAGA Republicans hysterically keening over the news that their Dear Leader, Donald Trump, had been indicted in the New York porn star hush-money case. According to social media and Fox News, this so-called "weaponization" of the government by the Democratic Party spells the end of the Republic as we know it, and "the people" aren't going to stand for it.
Trump released a statement that began:
