The First Lady’s unprecedented public statement about Jeffrey Epstein yesterday raised a lot of questions about what, if anything, is about to be revealed about Donald and Melania Trump’s relationship with the late sex trafficker.

Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”

When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.

As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases.

Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains. Holding the same signs. And reposting the same slogans with a fresh coat of urgency.

The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept...