I’m not here trying to make any prediction(s). It’s a genuine question. I think Congressman Adam Schiff and the House Managers have a sense of it, the question is whether there’s any member of the GOP that has the courage and love of country to tell Donald Trump to go to hell and get the f#*k out of the people’s White House. Quite honestly I’m not sure there is.
If any of the GOP senators were listening to Adam Schiff’s close last night they had to be moved. But honestly, I’m not sure. They’ve been hardened by years of trying to shape America into their version of what they think we should be. Not the country our founding fathers hoped we would be, but some twisted WASP version of utopia. No Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindu or any other religion or none religious people. No Indigenous People. No Blacks. No Latinos. No Asians. No one who isn’t descended from Western Europeans and dumped the Catholic Church.
I spend way too much time on Twitter these days, but between here and there I think I manage to get a good sense of things. Throw in some MSNBC. I’ve been taking a break by watching from the beginning The West Wing and doing some genealogical work on Ancestry.com. It’s almost sad that many of the issues covered in The West Wing are still relevant. What I’m finding on Ancestry would require a series of diaries. The treatment of women with a subset of it’s own diaries. The issue of slaves and slavery, again with a subset of diaries for which I would need co-authors.
Our founding fathers weren’t perfect men, but they had a vision of a better place. To be frank I’m not sure that today we can really grasp what they were hoping for the future. But I know it wasn’t Donald J. Trump. IMHO, Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell represent their greatest fears. They lived under the whims of a king, they decided to cast off the shackles of despotism. Mitch McConnell and today’s GOP are ready to embrace it. Somehow they’ve convinced themselves that King Donald will strengthen their power. What they’re ignoring is a King Donald will render Congress and the courts irrelevant.
So I ask the question;
A year from now, will we still be America?