After reading Heather Cox Richardson this morning, I decided to write to my senators and representative, urging them to speak up about Trump’s unfitness. I give my consent to you to copy, paste and/or modify my message below if you are so inclined, changing the name for your own rep. You can do all three in about two minutes. Here are the links to the senators’ comment pages:
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/connect/comment
Dear Sen. Durbin/Duckworth,
I have to believe that you and your staff are aware of Donald Trump’s increasingly unhinged and disturbing social media posts and public appearances. What I don’t understand is why you and all other lawmakers are not calling it out on a regular basis as a warning to every American about the risk of having an obviously cognitively and emotionally unfit person in the presidency.
I realize that Democrats alone cannot enact the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. But you can certainly join Representative Chellie Pingree in shining a light on the Republicans who are refusing to exercise their constitutional powers to protect the country.
She posted on social media, “This is truly unhinged. I don’t want to hear ‘oh, it’s just Trump being Trump’ or he’s ‘trolling.’ Republicans cannot keep shrugging this off. Congress, the Cabinet + everyone around him has a responsibility to stop enabling this dangerous behavior and start asking whether he is fit to hold office.”
That should be the message of all Democrats multiple times a week. The frequent repetition of that message by all Democrats will cause it to be lodged in the minds of voters of all stripes and become impossible to ignore.
Eventually, legislators will not be able to ignore it, either. This is how the Republicans work with their propaganda, although theirs are mostly lies. You cannot just cross your fingers and wait for the midterms. Trump is ever more dangerous to the country (and the world) with each passing day.
He must be removed from power ASAP.
Jim Parks
Former Oak Park resident