The Greek divinity Nemesis, rarely depicted in art, has no place in the Olympian pantheon of a dozen gods and goddesses. But she's an omnipresent force of retribution, an implacable force of punishment that arrives, if not sooner, then later. So too, it seems, with President Donald Trump, who is 'clearly not a man who discards his grudges easily,' William Galston of the Brookings Institution said recently. This observation is an understatement. 'Flooding the zone,' a term borrowed from football, was former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's way of describing the Trumpian tactic of issuing a barrage of statements whose sheer pace and multiplicity, not to mention contents, are intended to stymie any impulse at rational response. Like Nemesis, Trump is now pursuing his perceived enemies, using the power of the presidency. Among his recent retribution: He has fired Department of Justice officials and staff who worked on criminal investigations and prosecutions of him; he has revoked security...
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