Donald J. Trump’s first year in office as President has been one ludicrous, mind-numbing day after another. From his nuclear war-baiting Tweets to his calls to investigate or criminalize legitimate opposition and our free press, Trump has shown America that we may no longer use the term “America First” without cringing.
We allowed, even if we didn’t elect, this racist, mind-blowingly ignorant, sexist, likely criminal, narcissistic child to ascend to our highest office in the land, a catastrophe from which there may be no turning back. Propping himself up with profoundly unqualified, white male sycophants, Trump has unloaded damage to the air we breathe and the water we drink. He has brought out deep-seated hatreds, emboldened the Nazis, caused average citizens to doubt basic science and fact. The Trump regime has, lowered our standing as a democracy at home and abroad.
Yet, here is the greater problem, the proverbial “elephants in the room:” the Republican Party leadership in all the branches has not only allowed this Trumpian takeover but facilitated it, nourished it, as well as provided cover for it.
Some of the elephants in the room have called for the first Justice Department criminal investigations, not into Russian interference or Trump campaign team collusion with Russia, but into the intelligence officer Christopher Steele, the author of the “Trump dossier as well as Robert Meuller's investigating team - investigating the investigator basically.” Whether the GOP leadership’s actions are a result of blackmail, bribery, or cowardice, it is certain that they have lost their way. Even the Republicans in Nixion's time weren't this bad.
Republican Speaker of the House has allowed unfiltered access to all documents in the Russia investigation to a man (Nunes) who has already spent a full year furiously working at misdirection.
Republicans in power are doing everything they can to prop up Trump even as he wanders, loses track of where he is or what is going on. Republican leaders of the past would not recognize what has become of their party.
How fitting it is that the Republican Party’s symbol is the elephant, only this elephant is not rare or endangered, just big, bullying, and destructive.
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