Somehow, somewhere, along the bat-poop-crazy way, I missed this superb conspiratorial bit from Roger Stone:
I honestly believe that they’re going to try to charge the president and the vice president with some hoped-up frame of Russian collusion. That way they can make Nancy Pelosi president. She can make Hillary Clinton vice president and then step aside. It’s a nightmare but I think that’s what they have in mind.
Mr. Stone is an interpretative enigma, since one can never know if he says what he says merely for more attention, like Trump, or because he's a morbid lunatic, like Trump, or because his mendacity is heinously pathological, like Trump's. So who knows what his exotic conspiracy theory — about "they" and Nancy and Hillary — really is; if it's pathetic, spacey, or wickedly diseased.
There's another possibility. I read the Stone quote on FoxNews.com, which was incestuously covering Stone's preceding appearance on Fox News' "Hannity," in which Stone muttered his they-Nancy-Hillary conspiracy theory. As we do know, Mr. Hannity services the conspiratorially inclined among the Trump-dazed far right. Hence Stone might have only been seeking agreement, sympathy, and future contributions to his legal defense fund from Hannity's Trumpeteering crackpots.
Writ large, though, Stone and his own congenital crackpottery are but symptomatic of the entire, bat-poop-crazy Trump administration, which will be studied by psychohistorians for decades, even centuries, to come. Like Germany in the 1930s, how was it that a long-standing, (supposedly) refined, cultured society opted for the leadership of wackos, mobsters, Neanderthals and failures? On occasion I ask myself: Do we really want to know? Or should we, in the near years to come, just try to dismiss the thoroughgoing obscenity of mad Trumpism as a black-swan outlier?