How about we do this? We don't demand people resign without an investigation being completed

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12. Losing your vote will signal Gilead. I suggest you take a good look

at children too small to understand crying in cages and understand -- the evil revealed can and will be turned against American citizens. You and yours are not safe. It is happening here, and we must stop it.

"Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood" (Hosea 6:8).

NY Times, Paul Krugman -- Why It Can Happen Here: We’re very close to becoming another Poland or Hungary.

... And it could all too easily happen here. There was a time, not long ago, when people used to say that our democratic norms, our proud history of freedom, would protect us from such a slide into tyranny. In fact, some people still say that. But believing such a thing today requires willful blindness. The fact is that the Republican Party is ready, even eager, to become an American version of Law and Justice or Fidesz, exploiting its current political power to lock in permanent rule.

Just look at what has been happening at the state level. ...

What about developments at the national level? That’s where things get really scary. We’re currently sitting on a knife edge. If we fall off it in the wrong direction — specifically, if Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress in November — we will become another Poland or Hungary faster than you can imagine. ...

This week Axios created a bit of a stir with a scoop about a spreadsheet circulating among Republicans in Congress, ... Party loyalty will prevail over constitutional responsibility.

A year ago it seemed possible that there might be limits to the party’s complicity, that there would come a point where at least a few representatives or senators would say, no more. Now it’s clear that there are no limits: They’ll do whatever it takes to defend Trump and consolidate power. ...

But why is America, the birthplace of democracy, so close to following the lead of other countries that have recently destroyed it? Don’t tell me about “economic anxiety.” That’s not what happened in Poland, which grew steadily through the financial crisis and its aftermath. And it’s not what happened here in 2016: Study after study has found that racial resentment, not economic distress, drove Trump voters.

The point is that we’re suffering from the same disease — white nationalism run wild — that has already effectively killed democracy in some other Western nations. And we’re very, very close to the point of no return.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/trump-republican-party-authoritarianism.html

He's leaving out those among the 70,000 newly ultrawealthy families who are harnessing the "culture wars" for energy to dispose of a democracy they've decided intolerably obstructs their lives, their liberties, and their pursuits of happiness. But you get the idea, I hope.