We are really going to miss this man. Even if you disagreed with every policy he espoused you knew it was going to be well thought out. You knew he wasn’t going to overreact to events and do something without consultations with his staff, and you knew he wasn’t going to embarrass our country in front of the world.

You have every reason to believe his successor is liable to do any or all of those things, repeatedly.

Assuming Mr. Trump doesn’t resign in disgrace before taking office as a result of today’s news, of course. The claims in these opposition research memos may be unsubstantiated, but it sure would explain why he’s downplayed and dismissed all the evidence and reports of Russian influence on his election. For example:

One of the opposition research memos quotes an unidentified Russian source as claiming that the hacking and leaking of Democratic emails was carried out “with the full knowledge and support of TRUMP and senior members of his campaign team.” In return, the memo said, “the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue” because Mr. Putin “needed to cauterize the subject.”

That may not be treason, but it’s sure as hell acting against the policy of the government, the one you’re trying to become the President of. It stinks ethically and morally.