ONE MAN. MANY ENABLERS. SCARCE COURAGE

America is exhausted. The world is fed up. On fire. And the GOP has enabled the destruction and humiliation of their politics and party. This commentary sums it up… “On October 7, 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the Washington Post broke the story of the so-called Access Hollywoodtape, a video from 2005 in which Donald Trump told television host Billy Bush about his approach to women. “I don’t even wait” to start kissing them, he said. “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.... Grab ‘em by the p***y. You can do anything.” On October 7, 2021, the Democratic majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee released a draft report of its investigation into Trump’s attempt to use the Department of Justice to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The report found that Trump repeatedly tried to get the Department of Justice to endorse his false claims that the election was stolen and to overturn its results, singling out nine specific attempts to change the outcome. Trump, the report says, “grossly abused the power of the presidency.” On October 7, 2026, from the Oval Office, Trump told reporters: “I could have done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could have done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could have done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama. I thought it was inappropriate to do so because you have to treat the office of the presidency with respect. Then I found out that they impeached me twice, and I certainly even, to this moment, I have, I can do whatever I want, if I want. They’ve done some very bad things. You just mentioned it. It was just mentioned in the form of a question, what they did, very illegal, what they did, many illegal things, but I view the presidency as a very sacred position.” “I can do whatever I want, if I want.” Ten years we’ve been at this.” Amen sister. When history writes of this miserable chapter in our history, these words from the past will hold the same relevance as they did when they were first uttered… “If you were ignorant of what went on, you were a fool; if you knew but looked the other way, you were a coward; if you knew and took part, you were a criminal.” What a nightmare the world has been forced to live through. Because of one man. And the enablers around him.