There is a cancer growing on U.S. democracy and despite what GOP lawmakers might say publicly, plenty of them are spooked about it as more and more evidence piles up. For the good of the nation, a president facing such a storm should leave office until he is acquitted or convicted. Ideally, he would put the country above his own immediate advantage and leave voluntarily. If so, that’s well and good—we have a tried and true line of succession and it’s been used in the past more than once.
But this is Donald Trump. He will deny and defy any congressional findings or FBI conclusions, marshal his followers in support, pardon himself and any family members who are implicated, fire investigators, and precipitate a full-on constitutional crisis. It will be a crisis that can only be resolved by forcibly removing him. And that will not go over well with his more ardent followers:
A new Public Policy Polling survey shows, as if we needed any more evidence of this, that Trump voters live in an alternate reality that completely ignores the facts. This is especially true on the Russia matter, where more than 3/4ths of them don’t believe what Donald Trump, Jr. has publicly admitted to.
There are only two ways to stop this clown before a hypothetical sweep in 2018, and by then the damage to our democracy could be irreversible. That means that, at least for now, only Republicans can end this madness and restore order.