History In the Balance

The moment of truth has come for the so-called moderate Republicans in the US Senate, specifically Corker, Flake, Collins, Murkowski, and, at a reach, even Graham and Sasse. Will they be part of the process that allows a multiply accused sexual predator and pervert to “plow through” and tip the ideological balance of the Supreme Court for a generation, just as they supported a multiply accused sexual predator and pervert to become the President of the United States? Will they now allow the Mueller investigation to be constrained or shut down, becoming co-conspirators in Trump’s obstruction of justice and perhaps protecting the President from having the true extent of the conspiracy to influence the 2016 election with the help of a foreign power from being exposed?

There is no more time for posturing, no chance to hope the voters or prosecutors save them from these difficult choices. It is up to them. History hangs in the balance as does the future of the American experiment.