we all know it will never happen.

Someone needs to point the finger at the Republicans in charge.

The people will never know unless they are told.

Even then, they will be manipulated by lies and character attacks.

Republicans must be challenged much more aggressively.

"Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Frank Herbert

a long-time Democratic election judge, would sit and talk politics with friends, neighbors and (most importantly) his children. I can hear his voice now ... "Remember, sis ... absolute power corrupts absolutely." Hell I didn't know what it meant the first time he said it, but over several conversations he explained it to me. I had it figured out by the time I was 12. Why can't the other adults see it?

On a side note, my dad was a Pendergast man in Kansas City. He worked at City Hall and later the Water Department, and helped provide food, clothing and shoes to widows and orphans in KC during the Depression. To my knowledge he never did anything too heinous (bodily injury, etc). But he saw politics, inside and out, and I listened when he talked.

Thanks, Dad.

The Orange one has grabbed all power of the Government of the US (only with the help of the robed six) and anointed himself King, emperor of all. Decider of truths, all truths and his truths alone.
All that reject his right to the throne are deemed unworthy of life and must be eliminated at any and all costs.
Unfortunately there are legions waiting to help him achieve his goals.

Republicans will cover for him until it becomes more costly to them to support him than to condemn him.

and go directly to jail, do not pass Go. (Which, BTW, is where he would have been if the cases against him had been allowed to proceed in a normal, timely fashion...geez, the stolen classified docs case alone should have put him in the clink for years, as it has for numerous others. Garland, your stonewalling is your legacy.)

... in this context is a cynical euphemism, shorthand for total dominion over the lives of others. It manifests itself in religious zealots as well. Combine religion and politics, and we get the kind of hideous monsters we now see in the Christian Nationalist movement, and other so-called "conservative" sociopathic organizations, such as the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. NONE of them are "good people", and they sure as hell ain't "Christian".
The Founding Fathers were steadfast in their insistence on the separation of church and state. Their denunciation of ANY suggestion that America was a "Christian" nation was quite vociferous, and left no room for doubt or debate.
Over the past ten months we have seen what unspeakable horrors have been visited upon those less fortunate by a power-mad, greedy psychopath and his malignant minions. It cannot be rationalized, and it cannot be forgiven. We cannot let these vile people poison our country any more than they already have. They MUST be stopped. NO. MORE. CAPITULATION! The importance of preserving democracy supersedes any self-centered concerns for re-election.
Republicans will never "come to their senses". They have always detested the very concept of democracy, and our history is replete with instances of their despicable perfidy, so we can flush any hope of that Pollyannic dream down one of Trump's golden toilets. They have no honor, or they wouldn't be Republicans, so don't ever make the mistake of trusting them any further than you can throw a dump truck.