A Dire Warning: The Worst is Yet to Come!

Of all the things Donald Trump has done since taking office—as horrific and unimaginable as they have been thus far—they pale in comparison to what is yet to come.

All decent Americans are appalled by what we have seen but what Democrats and even disaffected Republicans are saying and thinking:

“just wait! In the 2026 election we will vote to remove from office all Congressional legislators who have voted for and supported Donald Trump. “

This is a false hope.

This is just what Trump wants us to think, because as long as we are willing to believe there will be a reckoning, we will bide our time. In our minds we think he cannot get away with the horrible things he is doing. This is, after all, a democracy!

As much as we to think it impossible, we must be willing to believe that the United States of America is no longer a democratic nation. We have become a Fascist state; we have become a dictatorship.

My prediction is we have less than a year to drive Trump out of office because he has already told us what he intends to do.

In July of 2024, during a campaign speech, former President Donald J. Trump told Christians to get out and vote. He told them that if they elect him they will never have to vote again. If you do not believe me, click on this link and hear it from the man himself.

Many citizens will be thinking, as you read and hear these words, that this can never, ever happen.

Please rethink this. Who would have believed he would do any of the awful things he and his administration have done?

What he knew and what none of the rest of us have been willing to believe is that there is no one who will have the courage to stop him. Not the United States Congress and not the Supreme Court of the United States, and certainly no one in the Republican Party. He has eviscerated the Constitution, the Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

The American people better wake up and realize that in less than one year, President Donald J. Trump will have cancelled the 2026 national election. Once he has taken away our power to vote him out of office, the American people will be left with but one unimaginable choice.

If we roll over and submit, imagine what will happen to citizens of color. Imagine what will happen to all white Americans, whether or not they have supported or opposed this President and his administration. We will have been disenfranchised, each and every one of us.

Please share this post with everyone you know and encourage them to do the same. The lives and futures of our children and our grandchildren will depend on our willingness to act, to protest, or to do the unimaginable. There may be no other way to restore democracy in America, just as there was no other way to stop Adolph Hitler and his Nazi regime, and his Gestapo.

Who could have envisioned we would, already, have our own Gestapo!

Let me say it again. We have less than a year to rally the millions of Americans it will take to prevent he unthinkable.

Please believe me when I say, you have not seen anything yet! The worst is yet to come!

An Open letter to the United States Senate: re: Impeachment Trial

Senate Republicans have openly stated their intentions to acquit President Trump based on their assertion that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachable offenses. Thus far, they have refused to allow witnesses to be called.

Critics are correct that impeachment of any president is an awful thing. It is also understood that Republicans are fearful that removing President Trump from office will strike a blow to the advancement of his platform, as there are many political issues about which people feel strongly and were the reasons many people voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

Other than an election, however, impeachment is the only recourse available to the American people and their elected representatives, to hold accountable a president—any president—who demonstrates a willingness to set aside the principles and traditions of democracy for the advancement of his or her own personal agenda.

If either the Senate or the people choose to turn their heads, their silence amounts to tacit approval of that President’s actions. Given a free run, so to speak, is no one worried about how far this President would go?

Whether the fate of President Trump is left in the hands of the Senate or American voters, does not obviate the need for those decision-makers to have seen the full body of  evidence before casting their votes.

Since there is reason to believe that witnesses are available who might further incriminate or exonerate President Trump, it appears to this American that, in the grand scheme of things, the principles of truth and justice trump the political issues, if you will pardon the pun.

Over the life of the American republic, leaders of other nation’s must have pondered the question, “What is to prevent an American president from refusing to leave office after losing an election or after an impeachment?” One might expect that an authoritarian president—one who believes himself to be ordained to lead a nation out of crisis—might be inclined to seize and utilize any power they have been given.

Democracy and autocracy are separated by the thinnest of membranes and it is only the will of the people that preserves the former.

With respect to the Impeachment of President Donald Trump, it boils down to several questions, beginning with:

“Do the American people need to hear the evidence?” and,

“Is the United States Senate going to protect or deny their right to hear it?”

The bigger questions are:

“Can we allow this or any president to put their own interests above that of the nation, whatever we think of his or her policies?” and,

“Do we need a president who divides a nation or one who rallies the American people around a common purpose?”

Today, the battle lines have been carved so deeply into the ground it seems improbable that conservatives, moderates, and liberals can work together to solve the great challenges we face as a democratic society, in a troubled world.

Make no mistake, the outcome of this impeachment trial will determine far more than the term of a single president and survival of his administration. It will determine whether we continue to be a nation of principles and law or one governed solely by power.

Remember, always, democracy requires a balance between freedom and responsibility.