Congress is failing us
We are eye witnesses to the unraveling of the American project. Watching the old war hero stumble on the stage of history as he tried valiantly to overcome the limitations that his obviously ailing condition imposed on him was painful in itself. Watching the pitiless Republican vultures pick at his bones was even more so. But watching the ugly truth of what our nation threatens to become was worst of all.
That we are governed by a president who seized the office and wields its weaponry with the deliberate and felonious help of a hostile foreign power is now beyond denying.
Because so much of it happened in plain view, we became inured to the outrage of the thing. Donald Trump, pursuing his unbounded dream of wealth and fame in the form of Trump Tower Moscow and heaven knows what other financial schemes, was the willing recipient of the Russian government’s illegal help as he pursued the presidency—seemingly less to win the office than to facilitate his plans of lucrative business in the heart of Moscow.
Led through the narrative of Trump’s unpatriotic corruption of American democracy by an adept Chairman Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee, special counsel Robert Muller finally rose to the occasion, as one could see a glimmer of the United States Marine who had earned the Bronze Star for valor in Vietnam in December 1968.
Yes, Mueller agreed, all distracting legalisms finally left behind, it was a disgrace to the office he now holds that Trump and those around him had sought, welcomed, benefited from and remained potentially compromised by the Kremlin’s criminal hacking into American computers and the campaign strategy formulated around the leaking of the hacked material. Yes, the danger such an invasion of our electoral sovereignty posed and continues to pose to our ability to govern ourselves is real and pressing. No, that danger has not been acknowledged, much less addressed, by Trump and his allies in Congress—lest they confess the unthinkable: that they are pretenders to the power they wield. [Continue reading…]