I know what the topic of the morning will be when I head up to the top of the hill where I live to meet my liberal friends at the coffee shop with the beautiful view of Oregon’s Willamette River will be about Rachel Maddow’s interview with Lev Parnas.
I held my breath as Lev Parnas came on. Would he come across as a dimwitted thug with a heavy accent totally lacking in credibility?
Then he began to speak and I thought that this guy is not only believable but he is articulate and personable. Anything but a thug, he came across as a self-effacing yet confident gentle giant with a wry sense of humor.
He seemed cognizant of the import of what he was saying as he revealed information that could not only bring down a president but also his minions from Mike Pence to Bill Barr to minor players like Rick Perry.
My thought was that he could turn them into so many playing cards flying into the air like the cards at the end of Alice in Wonderland.
`Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
`I won't!' said Alice.
`Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.
`Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.)
`You're nothing but a pack of cards!'
At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.
`Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; `Why, what a long sleep you've had!'
`Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, `It was a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
Alice woke up from her nightmarish dream. Lewis Carroll never told us what happened to the pack of cards.
If justice prevails we will see our evil queen and his pack of cards going into the shredder, ignominiously incinerated, with their ashes relegated to the history books about how the United States came close to become a ruthless dictatorship and possibly were saved by journalists like Rachel Maddow, who I think will win a Pulitzer Prize for this story, and an unlikely character named Lev Parnas.
I also thought what has already been discussed on Morning Joe, and no doubt will be brought up by others on MSNBC and elsewhere. Lev Parnas could be what John Dean was for Nixon and his cohorts for Donald Trump and his minions.