As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the…People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!

But the GOP is now Trump’s party. It has been purged of all dissent and forced into line. Those brave individuals that stood up to him are pushed out and hated by the rank-and-file and by the leadership. They are like that stock character in old WWII movies, the Good Nazi, who fights for his country but not for Hitler. And they will wind up just like them, betrayed or killed by their own comrades.

The Republicans are not guilty of failing to adopt Democratic principles, they are guilty of failing to live up to their own. Flake himself puts it most eloquently.

At this point, the president’s conduct in office should not surprise us. But truly devastating has been our tolerance of that conduct. Our embrace of it. From the ordeal of this presidency, perhaps the most horrible — and lasting — effect on our democracy will be that at some point we simply stopped being shocked. And in that, we have failed not just as stewards of the institutions to which we have been entrusted but also as citizens. We have failed each other, and we have failed ourselves.

He’s evaluating how his message is received, by both his enemies and allies. This doesn’t necessarily mean he’s going to actually use violence to stay in power, but it demonstrates that he is considering it, and ready to use it if he thinks he 1)can call for it, 2)make it happen, and 3)if he can get away with it if he does so.

This man is dangerous. And evil. But once again, at the risk of flogging a dead horse yet again, the main disappointment is not that Trump is Trump, its that the American Republican Party is still ready to cover up and make excuses for him.