Russian Aggression

The most significant event for America in the past year is the Russian attempt to delegitimize our election and delegitimize Hillary Clinton's presidency.

Whether it went beyond that to a positive intent to see Trump elected is, to my mind, an open question.

There must be a bipartisan independent investigation into this Russian initiative especially in the context of their similar attempts in Western Europe to weaken the European Union and NATO in the pursuit of an expansionist foreign policy.

And that investigation must go wherever the evidence leads and, should it lead to the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, or the Trump Whitehouse, so be it.

And if it doesn't, it doesn't.

I believe Trump needs to be impeached on other grounds (his delegitimizing of democratic institutions and competing sources of facts, including the judiciary, the press, science, the very election that placed him in office AS WELL AS his violation of the Emoluments Clause).

What America needs right now is an investigation and response to Russian aggression, the impeachment of Donald Trump on grounds that may or may not overlap with that investigation, and a creative response from BOTH major parties to address the pain and anger revealed in the last election by those of all races, creeds, and ethnicities who feel increasingly abandoned by globalization.