Like so many people, I had hopes that the findings of the Mueller Report would motivate Republicans to finally ask some serious questions about their president. We should have known better.
With the caveat that Congress and the American public must have the opportunity to actually read the report, instead of the Trump-appointee’s brief summary, the fact is that getting rid of Trump was never going to be as easy as one report. That is the case because Trump is not a single-faceted problem with an easy solution. No matter what the Mueller report reveals, here is what we know and have known since the moment Trump took office, if not before:
1. The president is a lying, sexist, racist, and deeply ignorant man who heads a Republican party that is chiefly governed by a win-at-all-costs mindset oriented toward voter suppression.
2. He is happily enriching himself at our expense while in office.
3. He used campaign funds to pay off women with whom he had affairs while he was married.
4. He came to power by winning the Electoral College, an outdated and undemocratic system that we have ignored for far too long despite the fact that we’ve been burned by it before (looking at you, 2000).
Nothing Robert Mueller reports on will change these facts. Ridding ourself of the disaster that is Donald Trump and his racist political party was never going to be as easy as one report. It requires that we organize and motivate ourselves to do the hard work of recognizing how we got here and making the systematic changes that will position us to move forward with competitive political parties and a functional and democratic system of government of which we can be justifiably proud. It’s necessary work; it won’t come easy. But it is the only path forward.
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