Washington • The most frustrating aspect of the backlash against President Trump’s servility to Russian President Vladimir Putin is that nothing that happened last week in Helsinki should have surprised us.
What's changed is that so many who insisted in 2016 that Trump was not as bad as he looked, that he was a pragmatist at heart, and that we should take him "seriously but not literally" have been forced to face the truth.
The truth is that Trump really does have what you might call a special relationship with Putin and Russia, for reasons still not fully known.