“Don't sleep on the NRA piece. It's the funnel to the whole GOP, not just Trump.”

— Rick Perlstein, author, via Facebook yesterday. He provided a link to this piece in The New York Times about Maria Butina at the National Prayer Breakfast. Basics: right-wing Christians see kindred spirits in Russian homophobia; Russians sees access to halls of American power via same Christians and the NRA.  Set oven to 2016. Bake.