If a schoolyard bully insults and assaults other kids, supervising adults may “tsk-tsk” with a cluck of their tongues, but if they do nothing else, they aid, abet and enable the bully’s bad behavior.
Reprimand is demanded for the sake of the other kids, and for the sake of abiding by the rules, if not for the sake of teaching the reprimanded child as well.
And so it is with our precious democracy that those whose responsibility is to check our president’s lawless obstruction are now called to active duty.
Disparaging clucking sounds without meaningful reprimand would enable the White House bully to continue treating our collective government and trusted commonwealth as his personal platform for pecuniary power. Cheats, liars, law-benders and law-breakers, including and especially the president and his minions, must face consequence for their actions, or else our civil society will deconstruct to schoolyards where might makes right.
Bruce JoffePiedmont
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