.MaddowBlog: Donald Trump, Robert Mueller, and a 'boiling frog' problem.
The cruel fable about boiling a frog has been around for centuries, and it’s become a useful metaphor. The idea is pretty straightforward: if someone were to throw a live frog into a pot of boiling water, the shock would be immediate and the frog would leap out.
Some have suggested in the wake of Barr’s memo that the entire Mueller probe was folly and the underlying scandal was a mirage. But to see recent developments that way is to play the role of the frog, adapting over time to rising temperatures. The Washington Post published an analysis several weeks ago that’s relevant anew.
News consumers and the rest of the political world have watched the process surrounding the special counsel investigation play out episodically, day by day, indictment by indictment, court hearing by court hearing.
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