John Meredith, of Huntsville, is a former Capitol Hill lobbyist who was recognized as one of the country’s 100 most influential Black Republicans.

Last Friday, Donald Trump ensured the next President of the United States will be a Democrat. His obsessive hatred of people of color on full display at a press event where he could not offer one verifiable statistical fact to justify his immoral attempt to seize the power of the purse from Congress. If he thinks a wall is that important to the security of this nation, why won’t this super rich billionaire simply donate a few billion of his vast personal wealth to build it?

Instead this president, in the three years since declaring he was a Republican, has bled America dry with weekend trips to Trump properties where taxpayers are forced to pay tens of millions of dollars, all of which find their way into his corporate bank accounts. Not included in these transfers of wealth, are the likely billions of dollars being pocketed in Trump accounts through foreign governments, business interests and individuals seeking favor by utilizing the drastically overpriced hotel rooms and meeting facilities at Trump properties here and abroad.

John Meredith is a contributing columnist for AL.com.John Meredith

In response to the president declaring ultra-conservative Ann Coulter would be supportive of his executive action, she boldly declared, “the only national emergency is that our president is an idiot.” For the first time ever, I agree with Coulter. However, what is even more disturbing is the ease in which congressional Republicans sold out the conservative principles which have been the governing ideology of the GOP since the party’s creation in 1854.

Any GOP Member of Congress supporting this so-called national emergency must be replaced in the next election cycle. Republicans do not govern unconstitutionally. We do not participate in the active degradation of American institutions of democracy. And we do not knowingly lie to the American people for any reason. Any Republican who cannot live up these principles must not be allowed to serve the honest, hard-working people of this great nation.

They have been complicit in Trump’s conning of America. His trade war has devastated American agriculture to the point where Congress has had to pass two multi-billion dollar “emergency” bailouts to keep that industry from collapsing. This deception will cost the GOP much of the rural vote in states that gave the Electoral College advantage to Trump in the last Presidential election.

If allowed to stand, Trump’s fake national emergency will justifiably be used to defeat him in 2020. Sixty-five percent of Americans disapprove of his executive action. That number will only grow once programs servicing military families and victims of natural disasters are gutted to pay for his unnecessary wall.

To make matters worse, a smart Democratic candidate will seize the opportunity to campaign on issuing a national emergency on Day One of their Administration that addresses a truly American crisis—gun violence.

This candidate will win every demographic in American society with the exception of rural white men. They will likely win 85-95 percent of votes cast by people of color as we do not enjoy the benefits of the Second Amendment like our white counterparts. In fact, being a person of color with a gun is often a license to be killed by police. This Democratic challenger will win handily in urban and suburban America as well as among white women voters although those splits will be more competitive.

The GOP experiment with Trump has been a colossal failure. Our great negotiator has been owned by everyone he has dealt with. He has created the highest deficit in American history with future deficits expected to be a trillion dollars or more each and every year moving forward. The national Republican Party is no longer the party of conservatives but the party of liars willing to say anything in their attempt to hold onto whatever political power they have left.

The American people deserve far better than what our party has provided these last two years. If the GOP fails to separate itself from Ann Coulter’s idiot, Democrats will add the Senate to their congressional majority in 2020 which will lead to the immediate impeachment of Donald J. Trump should he manage to prove me wrong and pull off another Electoral College victory.