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Just a Starting Point

Can we afford peace and unity?

Nick Welsh is absolutely right that we need peace and unity now. Can we afford it?

With no consequences for the crimes of a president, the next Republican in office will see Trump's actions and behavior as the starting point, the platform from which to test new and wider limits.

Trump scuttled the emoluments clause in the Constitution. The business interests of the next Republican president will be run from the West Wing by employees on the public payroll. All possible contracts will go to friends or relatives of the president. With sons and daughters now on the payroll, nepotism will run unto third cousins and incompetents. Tax cuts for everybody with the president's income or more.