Editorials & Other Articles

It is clear that he is causing long-term damage to this country and to our standing in the world, leading allies (do we have any left) and enemies alike to conclude that the US is now mostly a paper tiger they can ignore. Trump is boosting China's dominance and encouraging EU member states to dump the US and go their own way. Neither is good for our long-term future.

Do Republicans seriously think that only the children and grandchildren of progressives and minorities will pay the price for a degraded US with a reduced, or no, world leadership? Do they truly want a country where elections are not fair but are like Russia's where the results are known before the votes because voters somehow never vote against the government?

We have survived as a democracy for 250 years because we basically had honesty in our elections. The Republican Party has almost destroyed that with their cheating and attempts to disenfranchise voters and fair representation.