Dan Rather perfectly explains why Trumps attacks on Mika are the symptom of a much larger problem

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19. The problem is that our country has not been able to reject this

disease of a candidate and now president. There has been more than enough time to realize that this guy is making us sick. Not just dems or DUrs...he's making ill and dysfunctional the country, democracy, and our institutions that support us.

By now....our media, representatives, and public discourse should have been able to rally the 'antibodies' of logic, reason, morality, sense of decency, and justice to our defense. If our social and democratic institutions were healthy, he shouldn't have been elected in the first place, but even now there should be WAY more public discussion and movement toward limiting his power if not toward removal. That is, if we are even capable of it anymore.

I fear the longer this goes, the more obvious it is that we don't have what it takes to defend ourselves against this kind of invasion. As a nation, we lower the bar every single day this guy is allowed to use the power of the office the way he has been. And because of that, every day in office allows him to settle in and use more legal, illegal, immoral, and deceptive ways to do what he wants.

Trump has no mandate, little public support, no vision, no capability...and the GOP is ignoring it. Right now, they are the ones in position to defend us democratically and rationally and in a healthy democracy they would. But they aren't. The GOP stands in the way of our nation defending itself through expected channels of democracy, public opinion, election pressure, donations, etc.. They've built effective media empires, effective sociopathic funding mechanisms, voter suppression techniques, and gerrymandered districts so that they can operate with 17% approval to act against the best interests of most of the country.

How long do you live with a disease before you realize it's here to stay? Is our democracy getting stronger and more capable of defending itself as this goes on or are we getting weaker? 2016 was a big red flag. The way the media and GOP still talk about Trump the president 6 months in, after we know a lot more about him as the most powerful man in the world, is another huge red flag.