The Mueller Report makes it clear that the president was too inept to conspire effectively with Russia, although he certainly tried; but he very obviously obstructed justice. DOJ Policy proscribes indicting him, so he needs to be impeached.
Speaker Pelosi can't be bothered to impeach the president, however, because the Republican-controlled senate obviously won't vote to remove him. It's easy enough to impeach a toxic president, but probably impossible to remove him/her from office by that means. There's no getting 67 senate votes for continuing to allow the legality of oxygen anymore.
Middle America is hellbent on maintaining this nation's status as the most socially regressive developed nation on the planet. They call it "American Exceptionalism." It seems that if one lives more than 100 miles from an ocean, one's brain atrophies from the lack of salt in the air.
Many timid Democrats are saying that we must nominate a Republican-Lite like Vice President Biden to beat Trump in 2020. I was forced to vote for a Republican-Lite, Secretary Clinton, last time. I really don't want to be stuck having to do that again.
First of all, there are no moderate solutions for our catastrophic problems. Second, at 72, I'm WAY too old to wait for gradual change.
My favorites are our own Liz Warren and Bernie Sanders. The problem with Liz, though, is even if she beats the president, Charlie Baker will appoint a Republican to replace her in the senate. We can't have that. We're going to need sixty Democratic senators.
So it's got to be Bernie. No problem there. Like Liz, Bernie is pretty-near perfect. My third choice, I suppose, would be Senator Kamala Harris. After Harris, though, Biden, Beto, Mayor Pete, the former Newark mayor, Amy Klobuchar, and the rest of them are pretty far to the right of me.
Even Bernie is to the right of me on health care. We need a National Health Service just like the UK's, not "Medicare for all."
Trump isn't what frightens me the most, however. Despite his allergy to truth, he didn't disguise who he was during his campaign for president. Despite that, 63,000,000 Americans voted for him anyway, and they got exactly that for which they voted--racism, zenophobia, and continued social regressiveness. My problem isn't with one person, Trump, but rather with 63,000,000 who plan to vote for him again. If we allow them to prevail again, our republic will then be at the "Caligula stage" of its history and thus irretrievable.
