It must be painfully obvious to all of you by now that Donald Trump is corrupt, mentally unstable, and an existential threat to the survival of the country itself. Do your duty. Remove him from office.
I thought it was obvious long before the election that Donald Trump must never occupy the presidency. I wondered then, and I wonder still, about the intelligence and character of his supporters. He lies practically every time he opens his mouth, he is overtly hostile to the First Amendment protections of the press and speech, he is playing ‘chicken’ with another deranged authoritarian who controls nuclear weapons, and there is a compelling prima facie case that he has committed treason. Acting to remove him from office would not be, as some will doubtless contend, the politicization of policy differences, but merely the satisfaction of your sworn duty to protect the Constitution.
I repeat: Duty. You are officers of the government, and it is your sworn duty to protect the government and its Constitution. I don’t care if your district is comprised of evangelicals and other sundry nutjobs and acting to remove Trump from office means you will be looking for some other line of work next November. Your country needs you and your duty is plain: Trump must be removed from office.
For my part, the willingness to publicly say The Donald is unfit for office and publicly commit to removing him from office is the issue; I will work for those who will do that, and I will work against those who won’t. I have never in my life been a single-issue voter; I have often held my nose and voted for candidates I couldn’t feel enthusiastic about. But we are careering toward an unprecedented Constitutional crisis, and the gross unfitness of Donald Trump for public office, in combination with the myriad threats he poses to the country itself, overwhelms everything else: Donald Trump is the issue, and on Election Day I am voting exclusively for candidates who publicly promise to act to protect the country from him. Settled.