As we continue to watch the story develop on the raid of former President Trump’s Mar-a-lago home, the story thus far fits squarely with the intuitions of so many on the right: 

Most Republicans rightly believe that Trump has been unfairly targeted by civil servants motivated by partisanship going back years, long before his stunning election in 2016 and certainly thereafter. The “Steele dossier,” charges Russia collusion, allegations of obstruction of justice—they all helped create an automatic suspicion on the right of this latest search.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham captured the gravity of our current moment on my program early last week: “We are a nation of laws, nobody’s above the law, that’s for darn sure. But the politics around getting Trump have been going on so long and so often that we’re talking about constitutional principles here. This is a dangerous moment for the American Constitution. We’ll see how this plays out.”

Yes: We’ll see how it plays out. 

And yes: It is “a dangerous moment for the American Constitution.”