You know this was no simple protest that got out of hand.
It was an attack on all Americans! A strong enough one that the most conservative Republicans and progressive Democrats joined together in speaking out against this moral atrocity.
Yet when Donald Trump who speaks his mind about everyone from Rosy O'Donnell to Mitch McConnell (my heart just bleeds for the latter) can't, won't or has no understanding at all of the threat these groups pose, he empowers them.
We have to get real. The only two entities he won't speak up against are ex-KGB operative and current Russian President Vladimir Putin and the right-wing haters and extremists who helped get him elected.
His milquetoast non-committal condemnation of parties "on all sides" of the protest is an open invitation and not-so-discreet encouragement of what occurred.
Let's face it folks. America has elected a President who is dangerous to the very existence of our democracy and way of life as we know it.
We can sit idly by and let events unfold or we can mobilize, peacefully protest and do everything in our power to see to it that our ineffectual, impotent leader -- "the most powerful man in the free world" -- is either removed from office for cause or is neutered by changing the political landscape in 2018.
Just like Bernie Sanders, we have to be radical in the most positive sense of the word. Our country and that of our children and grandchildren is at stake.
We have to pay it forward. If we don't all of us will be paying for it forever.
Search your heart, and if you feel President Trump is a threat to our country's future then do everything you legally can to change the political landscape.
Or, just sit on your butt and see what happens. This is America -- the choice is yours.
UPDATE: September 22, 2018:
Donald Trump may be largely ineffectual but there is no denying "... Trump's 2016 election enabled McConnell, R-Ky., to cement a legacy of judicial confirmations that is likely to be felt long after the two men leave office..."
Originally published on Huffington Post
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