Monty, is it worth your life to shoot the fellow now, or should we allow the electoral and/or removal process to proceed? I am happy with the latter two choices.

Trump is, I fear, far more of a symptom than a cause. The existential crisis for this republic is not Trump of himself but if the growing culture of hatred and intolerance by far too many from both sides of our traditional spectrum. We are now in an era where the major parties are not seeking to achieve power to accomplish governmental objections but to harm the other side of the spectrum by whatever means.

This must stop, or we are in for a long series of Trumps, each one 'trumping' the last in hyperbolic vitriol and furthering our collective addiction to outrage.