Divided We Fall

It's not your father's Republican party anymore.

In normal times, a civil fraud trial of a former U.S. president and a superseding indictment of a U.S. Senator accusing him of being a foreign agent would have been top stories last week.

But these are not normal times.

The House of Representatives has been leaderless for more than two weeks. The federal government is paralyzed. Crucial action on the cri…