Vesuvius Erupting

SEC OF STATE "Pompeii" Pompeo recently erupted volcanically, spewing a torrent of livid linguistic lava at an interviewer to whom he had just finished giving vacuous, evasive non responses to tough, perfectly reasonable questions, like, "what was your involvement in Trump's attempt to shake down the Ukraine"? He summoned her into his personal quarters, and, humiliated, and thinking himself off the record, lambasted her with a flurry of "F" words. Quite the diplomat, the Secretary of State, behaving like a typical Trumper, dishonestly, viciously, reprehensibly. The NPR journalist, perfectly to do so, told the rest of us about Pompeo's harassing outburst, which made him even angrier. Trump, having driven most of his original cabinet members to distraction and resignation, now victimizes us with this fellow gangster of a pseudo diplomat. An illegitimate president, with a circle of thugs surrounding him. A sweet lady, one of my family members, said: "I don't like Trump, but he's still my president." My question" At what point does a president, while becoming a tyrant, stop being "my president"? When he tries to extort personal political assistance from a foreign government by withholding vital military assistance until the dirt is delivered? When he becomes injurious to the security of a free state, including the one he was elected to govern? When his gang of sycophantic thugs start smashing windows and destroying property, lives, and businesses? When he incarcerates political opponents, ignites gas chambers, or separates children from their parents and locks them in cages merely because they are desperate, hungry, and looking for opportunity?Do we stand in opposition to a leader who spews racial hatred, speaks thousands of outrageous lies? When does the difference between Hitler and Trump begin to alarm us, and inspire opposition rather than loyalty? It is the sacred right of the governed to remove and replace a government injurious to the public welfare. There is a legal, established, constitutional for overturning the results of an election, of removing an abusive tyrant from office. we are currently engaged in it. James Madison made it quite clear that the American people are incapable of governing themselves, and he designed the United States constitution to prevent them from doing so. It works well in keeping power out of the hands of what Madison called "the lesser sort". Ironically, the electoral system was designed to prevent incompetent demagogues like Donald Trump from gaining power. obviously, the system failed, because the electors refused to do their job. Now, we teh people, acting through our republican representatives, must act, and are trying to do so. Again, our masters seem to be about to fail us.