Dear Republicans: If You Don’t Like Impeachment, Tell Us How YOU Will Protect Our Democracy

Yea, I get it. You are on the wrong end of an asymmetrical moral calculus. You were the ones who benefited from Russian interference, so to condemn it, you have to cast doubt on your own legitimacy. Democrats can be as partisan as they want to be while, at the same time, coming down hard on the side of integrity, the Constitution, and democracy. It’s just not fair. Deal with it.

This isn’t your fault. And it isn’t the Democrat’s fault either. It’s just the way that it worked out. Russia wanted to weaponize our partisan divide and use it to damage our democracy. They had to pick a side to help, and they picked yours. It’s a tough break (except that you got the presidency, a pretty whopping tax cut, and a couple of Supreme Court Justices out of the deal). But that doesn’t change our situation. We have been attacked, and we need to do something about it.

You have made it abundantly clear that you don’t think impeachment is the right response. I disagree with this, but let’s bracket that for now. Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that impeaching and removing Donald Trump is not the right answer. What is? What are we going to do about the fact that our nation was attacked by a foreign power in 2016?