Suppose everything Trump is doing – invading US cities, harassing and deporting low-wage workers, demolishing the White House – is what Putin has ordered him to do?
Suppose he really is – as was widely suggested in 2016 – Putin’s lackey? Wouldn’t this be his game plan?
No, I don’t quite believe it. But as a short story idea, it certainly qualifies as “plausible.”

Party time at the new ballroom site.