Where does this leave us? What might one deduce from the Helsinki summit? Either Trump is too thoroughly inept to continue as president, or his predatory nature, as demonstrated in his business — not to mention his boasting about aggression toward women — has led to his collecting rogues to enhance his own power. Or both. In any case, he has stepped over all lines of acceptable presidential behavior and presents a clear and present danger to the United States.
When our chief executive, whose principal job is to defend both the Constitution and the nation against aggressors, stands alongside our chief geopolitical foe and betrays two of our most important institutions in the service of his own ego, he has dimmed the lights in the shining city on a hill and left the world a far darker place.
Again: Though nobody could have foreseen that we’d be talking about treason, specifically, a mere 18-months into Trump’s tenure, any clear-headed adult with two eyeballs and a properly functioning mind did know long before the election that Trump’s presidency would be catastrophic.
What I didn’t foresee is that Congressional Republicans would be so cowardly and servile, that they would stand idle as Trump systematically dismantled the security of the West and the intellectual gains of the Enlightenment. Mike Pence is no prize, but at least he lacks Trump’s cynical and predatory charisma.
Do your duty, Congress.