A couple of weeks ago I quoted Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If,” in which the poet says to his son, “If you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs.”
I made the point that this was the challenge those of us who are anti-Trump are facing. I would go so far as to say I think it is the challenge everyone with a moral conscience is facing.
But here’s the bad news. That challenge just got more daunting.
According to a YouGov/The Economist poll taken two weeks ago, 63% of Republicans oppose Trump being impeached even if he did accept Russia’s help to win the election.
Wait a minute. Is that right? Oh, my! I want to keep my head, but I think it just exploded.
It’s almost too much to take in. Republican voters are saying that if Trump accepted help from the Russians to win the election, they don’t care.
We’re talking about the Russians here, America’s primary adversary, and the majority of Republicans are saying that they are willing to support Trump even if he compromised the integrity of our election process.
There are no words to describe how appalling that is except to say that it strikes me as downright treasonous.
We now have voters in one of the two major political parties saying they have no qualms about selling out American democracy in order to protect Donald Trump.
What a fine state of affairs our nation is in.
I believed before the mid-terms that Democrats taking control of the House was the only practical hope we had of saving our nation. This latest poll proves that point. Left to the wishes of Republican voters, our form of government would be done.
It didn’t used to be that way. Past surveys showed that voters in both parties shared common values such as freedom, justice, integrity, sacrificing for the sake of one’s country. Not anymore.
That is why every Republican in Congress knows if they do what is right they will face losing a primary challenge. They know the Republican Party is now owned by Donald Trump because Republican voters support him no matter what.
It is not surprising that the few Republicans in Washington who spoke out against Trump chose not to run for re-election in 2018.
It is also why long time Republican journalists, consultants, strategists, and Congressional and White House staff members have left the Party.
The truth is out. The support of Republican voters for Donald Trump is far stronger than their commitment to our country.
I would have never believed it had they not said so themselves.
And so, yes, for the rest of us, keeping our heads has gotten a lot harder than it was only a few weeks ago.
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