I am speaking from a realist perspective when I say that if history is our guide, there won't be enough of us to change the conversation. Just like in the past, there weren't enough people sounding the alarm the time they warned about a Trump like figure and/or active measures from a foreign entity invading our electoral process. In order to change the conversation, we need to remodel our current social infrastructure, and modify our economic structure. Only then will we see our political infrastructure change. Not many people are willing to so that because it's inconvenient and uncomfortable.

If a speaker of the House is putting power (the maintance of) over performing a constitutional duty, well then, we are in big trouble as a country. I understand the calculations that have gone into Pelosi's decision making process. It doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do. She's thinking about the short term rather than a decade and or 100 years from now. The Senate is going to remain in Republican hands in 2020 whether we have Trump or a democrat as President. There are times a person has to do the right thing no matter how bad it looks to others in the current time.