Perspectives on Trump and Comey

I've got a few tabs open in my browser relating to the firing of James Comey and I might as well list them and let you read (or not), since I clearly am not going to be able to discuss each of them.

• Conor Friedersdorf's "Two Dead Canaries in the Coal Mine", an effort to get those unconcerned about Comey's firing to take it seriously.
• James Fallow's "Five Reasons the Comey Affair is Worse than Watergate". Fallows was a 24-year-old reporter when the Watergate story first broke in 1972, so he has a perspective not many reporters today can boast.
• Friedersdorf again, this time in a piece entitled, "Donald Trump's Own Words Become 'Exhibit A' Against Him", examining Trump's recent sit-down with NBC's Lester Holt. That interview was surprising even for those of us who have become a little jaded by Trump's contempt for political and ethical norms.
• Michelle Cottle's "Why Trump was Surprised by the Comey Backlash" argues that Trump takes the phrase "All politics is personal" a little too much to heart for his own good.

Oh, and an older item that isn't about Comey: a piece from Vann R. Newkirk II entitled, "The American Health Care Act's Prosperity Gospel". It's the best explanation I've found for the fervent support in some quarters for the House's American Health Care Act. For some folks, bad health is a punishment for bad living, while "Health is wealth".