Bar in NYT saying America is going to Hell...

Not all of America is going to hell, in a breadbasket, to boot. But the Republican Party certainly is, and a large section of the Democratic party, also. And Bar, Trump, McConnell, and the Senate are acting as the attractive devils, lying, cheating and stealing per the political moral code of America. They are saying the "Impeachment Trial" that will occur in the Senate, isn't a Trial. That it is a political vote, not a legal vote. The Constitution plainly says, "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments." Sounds like a trial. And follows up: "When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside..." Again, sounds like a trial. So it should be tried on the basis of the Bill of Rights: faced by his accusers, witnesses against and in favor, legal representation, and fair. We need a fair, official, public, (not behind closed doors with political party more important than truth). But they will default to lying, stealing, and cheating, ruling our nation, taking it from us, in plain view. And Trump will be free to bribe every foreign nation to assist him in stealing another election, and all the money and power that comes with it. Turn America over (it's done), tear up the Constitution, it's just a piece of paper now. Trump can't be indicted or impeached. He is King of he World. And we must obey, we are free to obey, and if we don't obey they will take our freedom. Quandary?

Trump claims Democrats unfair to him..

Trump says the Democrats have treated him badly. What has he done to the Ukrainians? What has he done to the 6 convicted felon Republicans who worked on his 2016 campaign? How fair did Trump treat the children coming across the Mexican border? How fair Was Trump to the Generals? How fair was he to the people he robbed at Trump University? How fair has he been to America? How fair was Trump to his wives? Cheated on all of them. Why should he expect to be treated fairly?  He is not fair to any living human. He exemplifies the Republican philosophy: lie, cheat, and steal. For votes, money, and power. And he will unfairly ask every nation on earth to help him win his election once the crooked, lying, cheating Senate Republicans find him not guilty of violating the Constitution. That's not fair, to the people of the United States, who deserve so much more, even from limited people like Trump.

Answer to "What will it take to beat Trump?"

It will take a love of truth, justice, and all men being equal to beat Donald Trump. It will take the courage of our fore-fathers, our dead warrior heroes, and faith in the judgement of the majority. It will take not allowing foreign nations from interfering in our internal affairs, as the UN Charter requires. It will take belief in the fact that all men are created equal. It will take an understanding that 6 men went to prison who were workers and decision makers in Trump's 2016 Presidential Campaign: and why they lied to Congress and the FBI. It will take wanting to be free, wanting your children and grandchildren for generation after generation to be free to vote and elect people they choose, and not people Russia/Putin choose, to govern us. It will take standing against the lies of the Republicans and their puppets at FOX propaganda. It will take ten minutes of thought about whether morality is better than lying, cheating, and stealing as the Republican Party currently wants us to condone.

The Trump Successful methodology..

The American experiment has failed. Trump: Party and power, by any means, wins over law. But, I hope people will talk about the 6 republican workers on Trump's 2016 election who went to jail for lying about Russian interference, paying off people not to ell their stories, and getting Wikileaks stolen data. More Republican help like those are coming, they are coming. When the Senate supports Trump he will continue to seek foreign assistance to win the election, and will probably win it. A brave Christian wrote that Trump is morally bankrupt and should be removed as President, and this well meaning Christian thinks it will make a difference. FEAR has grabbed America. FEAR of repression by the government has lead us to accept repression by the government: Trump lied about the government coming after the people's freedom, religions, and hope. He planned to do that and said the government was already doing it. It's the oldest bait and switch in history: "Man is not wise enough to rule himself" so you must let me rule you, for your own good. This is how all kings and dictators have taken over. They love the people and the current government is corrupt, which it usually is. Perhaps we should not choose someone totally corrupt over the corrupt amateurs Trump correctly saw and overpowered with Putin/Russian help, and people who went to jail, to get him elected. We're in trouble. I advise 1 of two ways out: Jefferson's "..a little Rebellion, now and then, is probably not a bad thing..." or the Constitutional way: Amend the constitution so the people vote directly on the laws, directly on the Executives, and directly on the judges: see assocactualdemocracy.com. Oh, and the statement "man is not wise enough to govern himself, Jefferson asked, "Then he should govern OTHERS?"

More on Impeachment and Governance...

The Declaration and the Constitution are just words on paper now. They are not the driving philosophy of our Ruling representatives. Jefferson's fear of the Monarchists has come to fruition. The Republican cabal ignores the rights of the people, THE PEOPLE whose votes should count, but don't. The People whose money should be protected from thieves, but isn't. The People who's life and liberty should be protected, but isn't. The People who should be served but are used and ruled. And lied to and cheated. There is no government of the people, by the people and for the people. There is government of power and self-serving. Rousseau called an elected Representative Government an elected monarchy. And so the United States is now exactly that. Trump has been declared free of indictment and now the Republican Senate has declared him free of impeachment. He is free from legal responsibilities to the Constitution. And the American Experiment has failed. To fix this will require force of arms or a Constitutional Amendment, both of which both parties will crush because it would give the power of making the laws to the people, elections to the people, and justice to the people. See assocactualdemocracy.com or Jefferson on a little Rebellion now and then is a good thing. We are ruled by men today, and by law. Pity.

Impeachment and the Republicans...

The People and the Press are missing the central issue of the Republican argument opposing President Trumps Impeachment. The issue is Lincoln's: Is this nations STILL based on "Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." The Republicans, under Trump, McConnell, Bar, and their adherents are saying we are NOT for, or even from, "liberty". And if we were from liberty it was an error, a mistake, and they are here to correct it, even against the majority opinions of our historic and present population. The Republicans will vote for their belief that the President is not bound by law: the President cannot be indicted and he does not need to aid in his Impeachment or recognize Congress' power to impeach him. The"strong man", the King, or dictator, or a benign ruler under any name, cannot have his powers limited by "his inferiors", the People of the United States. If need be, to bring about this 'reality' any methods are available and should be used: so the Republican Party has become the party following the philosophy of "lie, cheat, steal", do anything to get and keep the power to decide the future of mankind, 'for their own good' and for the good of the 'Superior people' the people of the Republican Party, who are wiser, stronger, better fit to rule and above any "SEPARATION OF POWERS". They use their elected powers to destroy the limitations on that power. And they have succeeded. The American experiment has failed. We need to change that.

And we change it either by force of arms or by amending the Constitution and making this Nation an Actual Democracy. assocactualdemocracy.com.

Response to Trump's Son-in-law NYT opinion letter on anti-Jewish speech.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire. But the president of the United States, the one who can't be indicted and viciously covers up his soliciting interference in the next election, and did so in public; President Trump that is, doesn't believe that people who have an opinion that he disagrees with, should be "permitted" to speak that opinion. Hail to the King, God bless the American Monarch, and his Monarchy. The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights are only pieces of paper now, not instruments of Governance. Jefferson has lost to Trump. Trump is above the law; the Republicans, the group looking to have "High Office" in the new Monarchy, to finally have support for their long, long belief in their superiority, support King Trump and aid him in stealing our freedoms and rights. The Republic has failed. The Monarchy has arrived, the American experiment has proven that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people cannot long endure. The Representatives always make laws to benefit the Representatives and not the people. Jefferson said (paraphrase); a little revolution every now and then is probably a good thing. Trump was talking about a civil war three weeks ago. He has no idea what will come down the halls of history and lead to slaughter again.