We
were part of over 1,000 emergency protests across cities and towns in all fifty
states of America, a day after Trump replaced the spineless and robotic
attorney general Jeff Sessions with a lackey and a certified hack and fraud
named Matthew Whitaker to oversee the Department of Justice and the ongoing
investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
"Nobody
is above the law" was the unifying theme, protection of the Mueller
investigation the focus.
Trump
made his preemptive move just two days after Democrats regained majority in the
House in the midterm elections. In his crude and demagogic way, he threatened
democrats with "war" if they dared to investigate him for his
complicity in the Russian meddling in the 2016 election and for his nefarious
financial dealings. By appointing a crony, whose appointment as acting AG was
unanimously declared unconstitutional by legal experts, Trump thought he could
bend the law to his will and make the Mueller investigation disappear.
Before
politicians could respond, people responded. From sea to shining sea, in
sunshine, rain and snow, Americans of all ages and from all walks of life came
together to tell Trump that his days of holding truth and law captive to his
ego was over. There was going to be accountability. The Mueller investigation
will continue and when its findings are revealed, the chips will fall where
they must.
On
August 9, 1974, at 8:35 am PST, Richard Nixon resigned as president of the
United States to avoid imminent impeachment over the Watergate scandal. Thirty
minutes later, Republican Gerald Ford was sworn in as president. “My fellow
Americans,” he said, “our long national nightmare is over." He added, “Our
Constitution works. Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.
Here the people rule.”
Forty-four
years later, we find our ourselves also confronting a terrifying truth: Our
two-year-long national nightmare is still with us. But with people speaking
boldly to power, and with Democrats claiming the House, we are filled with hope
that our current nightmare will soon be over. And people power will again prove
for generations to come that ours is, and will remain, a government of laws and
not of men.
