Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming - 2022 Edition

It looks like the government is about to get Donald Trump with the goods.

As you all know, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida for classified federal documents that Trump may have illegally taken with him on the way out of the White House after failing to fully respond to a subpoena.  The warrant was handed down by a judge, who decided it was necessary to give to the FBI permission to search Trump's not-so-humble abode.  The agents went in, warrant in hand, and confiscated several reams of paper, angering Trump and his toadies in Washington.  Trump is trying to make himself look like the victim, which he does very well, but so far the only two people are upset about all this other than Trump himself are Kevin McCarthy and Marco Rubio.

Trump calls this a Democratic plot to undermine his potential political comeback in 2024, but the last time I checked the only Democrat who's even involved in this is Attorney General Merrick Garland, and that's one more Democrat than the number of Democrats willing to talk about it.  Right now, there's no evidence that any of the documents recovered are necessarily tied to trying to prove that he committed a crime - the government simply might want all relevant documents for the National Archives - but there must be something very sensitive to Trump if he's trying to keep it to himself.  And it may not necessarily involve January 6.

Some Democrats may fear that the raid on Mar-a-Lago will energize the Republican base in the 2022 midterm elections.  I think it will energize the Democratic base because Democrats finally see Merrick Garland taking charge.