Gloria Borger

In the world according to Donald Trump, the years bring little change.

Around the time the President fell ill with Covid-19, his friends called in to try and buck him up – and offer some friendly nudging.

In another time, Joe Biden might have been the emissary explaining to a president what is doable -- and what is not -- on Capitol Hill.

The GOP just handed Liz Cheney a megaphone

In a way, it’s almost hard to believe: Here Democrats are, in control of the Congress and the White House, and they can’t figure out how to get to yes and pass a measure the public actually likes.

Meet the Trump 2022 caucus, in which all that matters is whether a) you are willing to say the 2020 election was rigged, b) you voted against impeachment, and c) anything Donald Trump is against (like the infrastructure bill), you are against, too.

Back in the day when Donald Trump was just a problem child, he wound up in detention so much after school that his classmates began calling it the DT’s. The Detention Club became his special place.

For Bennie Thompson, the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a significant moment of déjà vu. From his perch in the House gallery above the chamber that day, he couldn’t quite tell what was going on, until his wife phoned him to let him know what was unfolding on television. Then the Capitol Police came and instructed him – and other members – to crouch, and take off their congressional lapel pins, so they would not become targets for the intruders.

It’s hard, of course, to choose among the striking revelations in the last episode of season one of the January 6 hearings, but how about this: Top staffers knew exactly who Donald Trump was, and decided to remain anyway.

Strange GOP bedfellows unite with the Senate and state control at stake