Are we on the road to Regime Change in America?

My new motto: better to be alarmist than complacent.

It is increasingly looking like the first acts by the Trump team are creating a smoke screen to draw the fire of lawyers and liberals whilst a far more sinister plan is unfolding out of sight.

You know how pickpockets work; one distracts you — bumps into you, drops something, asks you the time — whilst the other uses that moment you’re looking the other way to dip into your pocket and take your wallet. Is Trump the distraction? Is Bannon already half way down the street with your wallet?

Trump on immigration is awful, and rightly provoking outrage. Law suits are being filed across the country, people are protesting. The response from Trump’s team will be counter suits, more lawyers, more protests, more headlines. There will be more stories like that of the former Norwegian Prime Minister being questioned for an hour at Dulles airport. This is what has dominated the news, preoccupied protestors, and used the pro bono hours of campaigning lawyers.

What has consequently slipped from the news is the Russian hacking of the American election. What only just made the news was a dubious sale by Russia of 19% of their oil company Rosneft. People did not take to the streets, lawyers didn’t file writs. It made…