Why is President Trump charging hard at the FBI? Because what goes around comes around, and the FBI has been on the warpath against him for nearly a decade. A matter of settling scores, then – and maybe for Trump himself, it’s nothing more than that. Yet the bureau’s recent conduct and history highlight the real stakes: whether a democracy should encourage political disagreement, even the rowdy kind, or treat it as a "problem" to be repressed by an internal intelligence and covert police apparatus.
