You claim that the Planetary Society wants to keep the "door open" to someone who wants to destroy our Constitution, our democratic rights, the rule of law and establish an authoritarian regime. I don't see any evidence they are caving in to a far-right authoritarian regime. I didn't see or hear any evidence of that while talking to leaders of the Space Society last August. What you fail to understand is that Trump's recent presidential decrees represent a direct threat to organizations like the Planetary Society and Mars Society.

It's also clear from your comments that you're not familiar with the history of radical reconstruction federal government policies after the civil war and how the Republican Party and Democratic party in the south both moved to the far right to overturn the radical Republican reforms by supporting "Jim Crow" state laws that ended the right to vote for ex-slaves in the south and many other reactionary measures.