When Does It Stop?

Every day just seems to make it worse.  How is it that Ivanka Trump is qualified enough to sit at the table with all the leaders at the G20 in place of her father, no less!  Does she have years of experience in government or years of training in macro-economics? 

We are watching our reputation as a country turn to dust.  The entire global community is now opposed most of the positions of the US on climate change, open trade issues, isolationist steel policies, Nato defense to name just a few major sticking points.

Then there was the meeting with Putin.  “It was an honor to meet you!”, says our President to the man who engineered and lead a cyber-attack on our country.  Where are those balls that he is supposed to have to stand up for our democracy?  It seems Vlad keeps them in little steel box in his pocket!

And in the middle of all this, our ‘President’ spends his time tweeting about John Podesta not turning over a server to the CIA, which is ludicrous on several levels.  Meeting with the leaders of the world is apparently less important than incorrectly blasting someone who is completely inconsequential to his current responsibilities. 

All of this is going to end badly.

Just how much of this are today’s Republicans going to stand for before they admit that the damage this man and his family are doing to our country is catastrophic.  When will insulting and denigrating our intelligence services and insulting and denigrating our former President finally precipitate action to save our democracy from its dismantling at the hands of our modern day Nero.

There is so much going wrong here that it is hard to imagine being able to fix it until Patriots finally emerge from the catatonia that currently defines the condition of Congress.  Democrats can’t do it alone.  What is it going to take?  Is there no salvation from this?  I can’t imagine the state of our republic by 2020.

It was only a few short months ago that I couldn’t conceive of Lindsay Graham or John McCain being President---I would welcome them with open arms now!