Article snippet: Posted at 4:00 am on August 17, 2017 by Caleb Howe 2017 is year one of the Flight 103 presidency: if the plane crashes, the entire airline is going down with it. It may go down anyway. You – or the leader of your party – may win a court battle over responsibility only to find out your brand has suffered irreparable damage. There are no guarantees. Except one: if the bomb doesn’t go off, the plane won’t crash, there won’t be a trial, and the company may survive. To compound the metaphor: the Donald Trump presidency is both the bomb and the plane. Without him, at least you can land and take your chances. To conservatives, that opening may sound slightly familiar. It’s a take on the disastrous (we also would have accepted “preposterous“) “Flight 93 Election” article from 2016 that suggested it was every conservative’s solemn duty to play Russian roulette with Donald Trump because at least with him, unlike Hillary, we might get the empty chamber. Bad news, friends. None were empty. All the chambers had bullets. (Take heart, we’re almost through the metaphors.) Oh, I know what you’re thinking. Too many times, Trump has been counted out and come back anyway. Too many times, it has been declared that this, finally this, ultimately and at last this will be the end of Trump. And yet time after time it wasn’t. He remained. People keep calling the time of death, he keeps coming back. You may be tempted to think this is due to some miraculous staying power or indomitability... Link to the full article to read more