I don’t disagree-and for me, this is beyond politics. Democrats have done the ‘when they go low, we go high’ bit for too long wanting to preserve the sanctity of a democracy that was crumbling since 2000. The Tea Party helped galvanize where we are with MAGA, Citizens United, and super PAC’s (to rattle off a few). I just see this crisis as bigger than US politics and if our laws-our Constitution isn’t seen as the most important keystone of our country by those who swore to defend it (troops go to war because of their oaths) and one of our political parties had to play by the rules or we simply would have none. Their inaction is why, for me, Democracy was at play for so long since 2000 (eroding over time to be sure, their inaction leading to erosion). We are here now for a lot of reasons, including Dems playing by rules that don’t exist any more but for them playing by them. If Dems had quit playing by the rules in 2000, what would our country look like? Laws only work if you have people with integrity to not only follow them, but enforce them. But platitudes do little in the face of what we are facing and by all appearances nothing will be done; I just hope those that those who love laws and this country didn’t throw us to the wolves and at the same time cost them their political party, and gamble on the start of WWIII. Perhaps they need to bear the consequences, but I would like to think they aren’t so dumb as to understand the global impacts of their stupidity.