One of the characters in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, Mr. Dick, was trying to write a memoir, but no matter what he tried to write, it ended up being about King Charles I’s head, which the Puritans had severed in 1649. That image was so strong that it became a literary shorthand for an obsession that intruded in all other matters. Seattle’s Mayor, Jenny Durkan, could be rechristened “Ms. Dick” because she suffers badly from King Charles’s Head syndrome. No matter what is happening in her beleaguered city, she returns obsessively to Trump, whom she views as so all-powerful that he is responsible for everything. While people have been focused on the running nighttime street battle in Portland, where Antifa anarcho-terrorists have sought to invade or, failing that, incinerate the federal courthouse, Seattle’s been seeing its own mobs at work. CHAD (or was it CHOP?) may be gone, but the memory lingers on in the form of...(Read Full Post)