In his column today, Eugene Robinson says this:
The most powerful office in the world is occupied — and being abused — by a man who is entirely unfit and is spinning dangerously out of control. Everyone needs to stop pretending otherwise.
And it’s all getting worse.
Capitol reporters increasingly that, privately, Republican senators agree with Mr. Robinson. Yet they refuse to say so in public. So the world (literally) wonders: how egregiously must this glaringly unfit and dangerous president behave before you act ethically and morally? That is, what will you do when you face the decision—and you know you will, sooner rather than later—to convict and remove him from office or to acquit him, allowing him to continue his axe-attack on democratic institutions?
The America we grew up is in danger of extinction. We, the citizens, look to you to act in democracy’s interest. Yet, indications are that you will disappoint us. For despite the wild excesses of this president, on too may fronts to enumerate, you persist, to the last man, in defending him.
But defending him for what? For what would you betray our nation, the nation you’ve sworn a solemn oath to protect and defend? For your own political futures? For your pockets? How is it that you, members of a party that, until only three years ago, promoted itself as uber-patriotic, as singularly protective of individual responsibility, as champions of high moral and ethical standards, as advocating extreme military preparedness—how is it that you’ve become so greedy, so narcissistic, so gutless that you’d sooner provide political cover to an amoral, raving wannabe dictator rather than defend our constitutional republic?
If you cannot see your way to convicting this president, this thug who, without doubt, fully intends to end our way of life, if you cannot see in stark contrast the moral choice you’ll soon be called upon to make, then you doom us all, your cowardly selves included.
Life’s certainties are few, and yet I’m sure of this: the spirits of Lincoln, TR, and Ike are in high mourning. So are the spirits of untold Americans who risked and, often, lost their lives standing up for the principles embodied in our Constitution. How dare you betray their memory?