PROVIDENCE — Straight from former Brown University professor and pollster Darrell West's mouth to Rhode Islanders' ears: a few predictions. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo will be "easily confirmed" as U.S. commerce secretary. Former President Donald Trump will be indicted and then convicted of one or more financial crimes: "Stay tuned on that." The Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol — and the lead-up to it — was "a learning moment where people understand how close we came to losing our democracy." But "we are facing a longer-term crisis in democracy just from the standpoint of wha...