Der Spiegel: A Danger to the World It's Time to Get Rid of Donald Trump

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13. We are now the world's laughingstock.

The der Speigel article provides damning evidence that the U.S. is beginning to lose its leadership role in the world. China and Russia are eager to step into the void left by a buffoon without any notion of effective policy and a GOP leadership eager to hold on to power at any cost to the country. We Democrats are placing our hopes for a reprieve on the 2018 midterms and the notion of taking back the House and perhaps the Senate. I am not very confident that we will be able to do so. The Montana election, with a less than appealing Republican candidate, shows that Republicans do not seem to care that their leaders in Congress are dismantling healthcare and will try their best to destroy Medicaid and Social Security. By continuing to vote Republican, they are voting to cut taxes for the very wealthy. After all the town halls and the media exposure of such harmful policies, the fact that Republican voters continue to send Republicans to Congress mystifies me.

In addition, we never truly investigated the ways in which the Republican Party may have manipulated votes in Michigan and Wisconsin. Through voter ID laws, possible illegal tampering with votes (is it really probable that 80,000 or so voters in Detroit really did not choose a presidential candidate?), and extreme purging of voter rolls, do we really expect Republicans to not do everything they can in 2018 to maintain their power? We have an uphill battle just to have a fair election. Democrats will need to vote in overwhelming numbers in 2018 if we expect to gain either the House or the Senate.