Trump sold out his allies for Putin. But there is an even worse betrayal

We trudge through the rubble of the Trump era’s bleak landscape hoping we’ve hit the nadir, only to find that there is no rock-bottom in the havoc that the US President is capable of wreaking. The ides of October are deepening this impression. With just weeks to go before the midterm elections, which will either sustain or capsize Donald Trump’s control over Congress, one might expect him to hone his normally sharp populist instincts, but in fact his wits appear to have dulled with age and the pressures of high office. The moment’s suspense is thus heightened: Are we on…