Gotta be up front with y’all. What’s going on is a grind. Yep, a real grind. A flood of colossally bad moves, blatant racial profiling, skirting and breaking the law. It is maddening. It is infuriating. It is depressing. Every morning I pop open my phone to learn about the latest disaster.

But you know what? This chaos is not going to last. It will end, these crooks will be reigned in and brought to court, and our country will begin the long and substantial work to rebuild our nation, alliances, and reputation. I try to focus on this future rather than the mess we are currently in.

The headlines, blogs, and social media posts are right to tell us what’s happening, and it’s important to know what’s happening but it’s often not the whole story. What gets our attention now is the stories that are flashy or angering or infuriating but the stuff that doesn’t make headlines is the fact that the current regime is striking out almost universally in court.

Judges are holding officials’ feet to the fire. Grand juries are refusing to play along with the administration’s bullshit charges. The idiots are getting called out and quietly retreating on many fronts.

As long as this administration keeps being frustrated in its quest for legitimacy there is hope. We just gotta keep grinding.