1. United States
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Regardless of the likelihood of the immediate successful removal of a seriously debilitated and dangerously mentally impaired president, the Congress must continually act to keep the momentum going to right the ship of state. Impeachment is, as Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 65, the remedy in our system for “those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.” The misconduct of Trump, in terms of his corruption and that of his associates, is unparalleled in our history. His abuses of power leave Nixon in the dust. A trial of impeachment would allow all the evidence of his offenses to be presented coherently in one time and place. Even if conviction doesn’t follow, an unequivocal alarm would have been sounded. As he continues to act out his increasingly dangerous pathology on the world stage, he simply cannot be permitted to destroy the world. Sadly, this is not hyperbole. We can all see that the President is suffering from multiple delusions of grandeur and unlimited power. For the sake of our precarious future, act as if the world’s existence depends on it,because it does.