IS ENOUGH ENOUGH?

          When is enough enough? When is truly funny not so funny anymore, but instead, is actually leaning towards the frightening? When is it that we finally come to realize that yes, we are in great existential danger, and no, we cannot look away from it any longer?
     "His condition is getting worse." So Conway, the husband of Kellyanne Conway, states yesterday after a most unusual visit to church by the Trumps. Generally, his 'church' visits take a much lower priority than his golf outings!! In any case, Conway was not the only one who feels this way.
     Laurence Tribe, a prominent professor at Harvard and in the academic world, has warned us that we have much to fear by 2020. Nor is he the only one warning us. Over and over again we are reading of concerns that the 2020 election will be nullified should Trump lose. That he will not vacate the office in a peaceful manner and in fact, will not vacate at all. Russian collusion, electronic interference, unqualified voters, Fake News - take your choice, but there it is. His excuses, pre chosen.
     A man who can shriek a constant piercing sound of war against the media or plumping for his favorite, Fox News, as they support him (Pirro firing aside), well, that man is dangerous to our democracy. He does not like the parodies of SNL. He does not like the late night show hosts, which to a one, get the laughs out of this demented person and yet, this is when we ask: When is enough enough? And no, not to stop the parodies and the humor, but when do we realize that there is a whole lot of scary reality behind these comedic sessions and we need to be concerned. When the subject of this humor calls for an investigation of them, for them to be shut down!!!!, accuses them of COLLUSION with Russia, then enough is enough. I say that and so do many others.
    Here is the problem. Impeachment is not such a sure path. It would take the Senate to convict and at this point in time those Republican wimps are too shamed and so deep into their shame that they cannot pull away long enough and bravely enough to do the right thing. So Graham defends his friend, McCain, against Trump's nasty tweets, but then he will turn around and lose yet more marbles as he chants the Trump chant and drinks the Trump Kool-Aid. 
     The veto willl not be overturned due to the cowardice and fear of these Republicans. They have given away the keys, all of them, to the kingdom, sacrificed their own legal powers according to the Constitution, and do not even feel it, when the knife in their back is one they placed there themselves!
     The man is mad! The man is truly over the limit and this is the time when enough is enough. I wonder if there is a recall for the President? I wonder if there is, if that would trigger the Civil War that is waiting in the wings? I wonder if people will blockade the polls for the 2020 primaries and election? I wonder if the election will trigger that Civil War awaiting us unless we do something to avert it and I do not mean giving in to this Demented One's demands.
     On a week of horror at a New Zealand mosque, Trump had much more to tweet about in his maniacal barrage of tweets over the long weekend. He found time to remark that he simply does not see a rise in white supremacists, you know those "fine" people. This from the  very man whose words and deeds have encouraged this growth and with whom he will celebrate it as Brazil's leader, called the "Trump of South America", comes for a visit. This from the man who rants and raves like the lunatic he is, like the naked emperor he is, and yet, he is still here, doing the crazy thing and smirking the whole way, thinking he is oh, so clever.
     And perhaps he is, but perhaps the truth will finally climb and  fight its way to the surface. Over 5,000 stores are being closed this year. The GM plant in Ohio is closed and despite his demands that it "must" reopen, the economy says otherwise. The environment is going to rack and ruin, the waters of the country are becoming far more polluted and dangerous than ever and who would ever have thought that we, in America, would not have clean and safe water for our people? Who?!
     So I ask again - when is enough enough? When do we stop the hypocritical bonding with and support of a killer, a despot who masquerades as a a progressive leader yet kills Khashoggi and now we hear of others, and who promises women rights, yet locks away women supporters of this. And his best buddy roams the White House at will. When do we stop supporting a man who is suborning the judiciary for decades to come, making a mockery of it as he appoints numerous unqualified and incompetent backwards thinking people to seats on all levels of the federal bench?
     At what point is enough enough? Is it when we find that we have to write out large checks to the IRS this year and such a tax cut! Hmm, guess the 1% got theirs! Is it when we read of the cuts to social safety net programs, to Medicare and Medicaid, to Social Security, of cuts to education and the growing role of churches, religion, in our public schools? Is it when we totally and completely cede our ethos, our core values, build a stupid wall around the whole country, and wither away in our own self imposed punishing exile and abandonment? When, people, when?
     We need someone tough. We need someone not afraid to do what needs to be done. We need someone who comes from the people, not the rarified territory of the uber rich, be they born to it or grew into it. We need to remember the middle class and the strivings of the lower class to rise to that, to know that their children have a chance of success, unlike what the kids are facing today. We need one who is not afraid to condemn anti Semitism for what it is and not allow others to disguise it with names that lie.
      As far as I am concerned, it is Amy Globuchar. I like Gillibrand but need to know more. O' Rourke is not qualified at all. He needs a whole lot more seasoning before he will be ready. I am seriously disappointed with Kamala Harris and I had hopes for her, but her wimpiness against condemning the resolution, the mouthings of Omar, well, she blew it. Do not know enough about Booker and Castro, Warren is better off in an administration and not as president, Sanders is too wild and too damn old. Biden is stale, even as people push for him and I cannot understand that. This is the man who called Pence a decent guy! Huh!!! Need I go into that?
     We are in trouble, folks. We need to buy some heavy duty shovels and get to work. We need to reengage our brains. We need to reengage our hearts. We need to face up to some very harsh realities and choices. But if we do not, then enough is enough will not even be a question any longer. We will have lost it all. It is that much of an existential issue.