John Dean and the Need to Cure the Current Republican Cancer

June 25, 1973: White House counsel John Dean recounts his meetings with President Nixon to the Senate Watergate Committee: “I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the Presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, he President himself would be killed by it.”

If you were at home and watching the television you might have seen President Trump calling for people to walk to the Capitol and he would be with them on January 6th, 2021 .  Later in the afternoon it got ugly, and violently dangerous.  Some in the crowd were calling out to hang Mike Pence.

Two Impeachment Trials, criminal indictments, and civil fraud, defamation and sexual abuse judgments are not the stuff of witch hunts and victimless crimes. 

Chris Christie: "He'll burn America to the ground to help himself," Christie said, in a direct address to the camera. "Every Republican leader says that in private. I'm the only one saying it in public." 

In many ways the legal issues Trump has are secondary to the idea of the political nightmare that the Republican/Trpumblican Party has become. 

I don't blame Nikki Haley for wanting to be a placeholder if Trump gets convicted.  As time goes on the choices for this country's democracy will depend on November's Election.

The stakes are huge.  People need to pay attention and appreciate what might be in store should a defense strategy of delay, election, and more mischief to stop trials or possibly a president pardoning himself to continue his grifting of this country succeed. 

An untethered Supreme  Supreme Court with conflicts of interest and House Republicans adept at street performances and grievance spewing but unable to pass meaningful legislation that addresses the issues the public is concerned with, for fear of getting an opponent in the party primary or getting shafted by Donald Trump.