So all the “fake news” was true. A hostile foreign power intervened in the presidential election, hoping to install Donald Trump in the White House. The Trump campaign was aware of this intervention and welcomed it. And once in power, Trump tried to block any inquiry into what happened.
Never mind attempts to spin this story as somehow not meeting some definitions of collusion or obstruction of justice. The fact is that the occupant of the White House betrayed his country. And the question everyone is asking is, what will Democrats do about it?
But notice that the question is only about Democrats. Everyone (correctly) takes it as a given that Republicans will do nothing.
Krugman is correct. Trump’s offenses are real, grave, and demand a muscular response — and never mind that the Republican Party has degenerated into a shameless pack of whores. If the Democrats are the only people left to defend the country, then they will have to shoulder the job. Trump is an existential threat to the country itself, and must go.