"The election of Trump poses such a significant and singular threat to this country that all other issues are subsumed by the unshakable sense of impending calamity he presages. The nation is soon to be under the aegis of an unstable, unqualified, undignified demagogue. With republicans in control of Congress, there is little that can be done to constrict or control his power, The fact of a hostile foreign government executed a plan to influence, and therefore irrevocably damage, the bedrock of our democracy is unfathomable. To have a president who refuses to acknowledge the violation in order to avoid being marked as a Manchurian candidate is not normal. The only thing that can protect America from the man who will sit at its pinnacle of power is the urgent insistence of the public that radical alteration of our customs and concepts of accountability are not on the table."
At www.nytimes.com
