He has managed to become so reprehensible, and he has made the presidency* so utterly toxic, that the real leaders of American business, and the real owners of the country, are running away from him as though he's a leprous beggar. He's been president* for less than 200 days. In a purely academic sense, or as seen from the perspective of a person from Mars, this is quite a remarkable achievement. The ship, to borrow a legendary Irish newspaper headline, is deserting the sinking rats.

He has had his crisis. He has failed in every sense there is in which to fail. I, for one, am not willing to wait around for the super-hurricane or the mass killing terrorist event to realize that not only is the president* unfit for the office he holds, but he has no intention of ever becoming fit for the office he holds. He wouldn't know how to do it even if he wanted to, and he's shown no indication that he wants to. The only available avenue within the institutions of government is to minimize the damage he can do, defang his presidency in the 2018 midterms, and render him unelectable as far in advance of the 2020 primaries as possible. All of this would return us for a time to the relatively powerless presidents immediately prior to the Civil War which, since we're re-litigating all the important arguments of the 1850s anyway, at least would be consistent...

Say his goddamn name. Don't tell me how much you deplore racism in the abstract. That does not make me feel good as a citizen. Tell me you deplore racism in the specific human being who's now president* of the United States. For anyone whose moral compass still points true north, that's the proper response. Otherwise, shut up...
The racial gunpowder that the Republicans have been storing up since Harry Dent wrote a memo to Richard Nixon has finally found a bright orange fuse. It's not enough to deplore white supremacy from within the safety of your gerrymandered districts. It's time to distance yourselves from the president* who refuses to distance his presidency* from it, and from the policies that made that president* not merely possible, but inevitable. My god, at least have the moral courage demonstrated by the guy who runs Walmart. Grab your bibles and consult your St. James, folks. You know, that part about faith without works?