J. Bradford DeLong is right – it’s time to remove this “unhinged, unqualified kleptocrat” and moron in the White House, because the longer he remains in office, the more harm he will inflict on his country and the wider world. Unfortunately the GOP has become a bystander in a “broken political system” of their own making. With Trump in power, many Americans are watching how their country suffers “a death by a thousand cuts, leaving it weaker and poorer the longer.”

The GOP has become a party of Trump, who has gained “public backing from a wide array of Republican mandarins, policy advisers, and activists, all of whom knew that a President Clinton would pose less of a risk to the country.” Yet The Clintons have long been an irritant to Republicans, who couldn't figure out how Bill Clinton as "a failed governor from a small state" managed to oust George H.W. Bush in 1992. They impeached him in 1998, but they not only failed to get a conviction, they lost House seats despite his impeachment. Hence they couldn’t stomach the idea of having Hillary Clinton in the White House.

The GOP went on to support Trump in 2016, ignoring the risk he would pose to the country. Mainstream Republicans “assumed that they had little to lose, and perhaps something to gain,” despite his total unfitness. They thought he would be fine, once surrounded himself with the right people. They backed him because they “saw it as a cheap way to advance their future in the party,” and they did not expect him to win. Today many GOP voters “have come to regard themselves more as Trump supporters than as Republicans.”

That at least 43 House Republicans have announced they are retiring, running for another office or resigning outright, including Ryan, has complicated embattled Republicans’ hopes of holding the House, when the party needs to unify around a strategy to keep its majority in the November midterm elections. This GOP mass exodus has sapped morale and made donors nervous. Democrats need to pick up 24 House seats to retake the majority from Republicans, who have had control of the House since 2011.

The author says, it is time to learn from the 2016 election and start to “educate” voters. But the most important divide was not between whites and non-whites, but between those who are often referred to as “educated” voters and those who are described as “working class” voters. Six in 10 Americans do not have a college degree, and they elected Donald Trump. College-educated people are said to be “isolated, insular and liberal.” Critics say the liberals didn’t just fail to see this coming, they have struggled to display even a rudimentary understanding of the worldviews of those who voted for Trump. Apart from promoting civic learning and democratic engagement, the author urges the American people to use their “power to mitigate some of the damage from Trump’s domestic policies at the local level.”

Before Republicans face their day of reckoning in November, they might persuade Mike Pence “to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which provides for the removal of a president who has been deemed unfit to serve by a majority of his or her cabinet.” The American public needs to put pressure on the Murdochs, who own Fox News, and tell them to be more responsible, because Trump is too simple-minded to be critical. He often parrots thoughts and views presented by Fox News commentators. If these anchors really have their country’s best interests at heart, they should tell Trump to step down – at least out of respect for the country, if not for himself.