I am desperately afraid that we don’t recognize the crisis that confronts us in America. We have a plurality of one party that supports the insurrection on January 6th. We have a President and any number of pretenders (Harley, Cruz) willing to be the champions of that number. They are not going away. They cannot be reasoned with. They act with the righteous flame of certainty. The GOP elite has created a constituency that they have totally lost control of; they thought they could surf that 150 ft wave and come out of it with their integrity intact, if they ever had any integrity to begin with.

So, we can talk about the enablers not only of Donald Trump but of an attack against American democracy itself. Just today, Speaker Pelosi announced a plan to bring a privileged resolution to the floor of the House on Monday, meaning that within an hour the House could send articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial. Majority Leader McConnell, that enabler of enablers, in a memo to other Senate Republicans says that if the House does indeed send articles of impeachment to the Senate, he would postpone consideration of those articles until January 19th, the day before Biden’s inauguration.

What does this mean? Simply, that McConnell will now be personally responsible for anything that Trump can contrive to do in the next 12 days to further undermine the American experiment in democratic self government. It really is as simple as that. And, most chillingly, he doesn’t care. He has never cared about anything but power.

Remember: this is about incitement to insurrection. If that’s not a high crime then what is?

At the end of the day, are we underestimating the damage Trump has done to America and just tragically unaware of the danger going forward?