If Trump knew about the payments (and I'm sure he did), it's an obvious campaign finance law broken, and he ought to be prosecuted and most likely convicted.  In theory, paying "hush money" isn't against the law, but it is if using those funds to do so.  

Will be interesting to see where they go in the Biden investigations.  Obviously, one wrong doesn't relate to the other so I'm not trying to equivocate.  But in theory, if some of the allegations of personal enrichment and percentage payments to Joe are true (and a couple of friends close to Democratic politics tell me they very well may be) then it's arguable even worse than the charges against Trump.

Where does that leave us as a democracy?  In a very difficult place.  From answers to just about any question, it would appear that Harris is a decent-enough human being but just isn't smart enough for the job.  I could see that way back in the 2020 Democratic debates.  It was that obvious.  

I don't fear that DeSantis is as far to the right as he is oft-portrayed. But the MAGA wing of the Republican Party wields enough influence right now that it's worrying what he might need to promise them in order to get elected.  We saw this play out with the Kevin McCarthy SOH procedure although perhaps it hasn't really led to any truly outrageous far-Right stuff yet.  

The economic mistakes made by the Biden Administration (and to an extent by the Trump Administration) to make the COVID years less-difficult but leading to predictably high inflation and bank failures was both obvious and often-discussed by establishment Republicans.  I didn't hear Democrats echoing that, despite the fact that you'd think they might have learned the lesson from 1980.  Apparently not.  

We're between a really big rock and a super-hard place right now.