Screaming into the void

April 6, 2026

Dear Representative Jayapal, Senator Murray, and Senator Cantwell:

You know, there’s a downside to having some of the best representation one could ask for in Congress. And that is, when there are urgent and critical actions that Congress is failing to take—as is the case today and as has been the case for over a year—we as constituents have no one to yell at, no one to implore to act on our behalf.

Because you all are already aware of the catastrophe that the Trump regime is raining down on us. You are already aware of the crimes and the corruption and the rank stupidity and the, frankly, treasonous behavior of the president, the vice-president, the majority of the cabinet, and let’s say a minimum of 45% of the Supreme Court.

So my continually writing to bring it to your attention and demand action is superfluous.

Yet, write I do because there’s little else I can do. I protest, along with millions of others; I write articles; I try to educate fellow citizens that might not be paying attention. And nothing happens.

I know why. I know that you cannot effectively accomplish much of anything in Congress when the majority party has been captured by white-nationalist authoritarian cultists that betray their oaths of office on a daily basis. I wonder and gnash my teeth over and over again over the mind-boggling reality we find ourselves in, one wherein the majority party in the Congress is just fine with one of the dumbest people to ever walk the Earth shredding the Constitution and effectively Nazifying the United States, all while upending the international order (and not in a good way).

Trump’s insane war is going to bite this country in its metaphorical ass for many, many years to come even in the best-case scenario, and Congress is, so far as we can tell, utterly silent. And that’s just the latest outrage among innumerable outrages since he lied his way back into power.

Congress could end this reign of terror right now. It could have done so at any time over the past 14 months. It chose not to. I won’t say YOU chose not to, because I know you’d be near the front of the line to impeach and remove this corrupt moron and his coterie of sycophants. But Congress has failed, choosing to be complicit in the destruction being wrought every day.

So, since I don’t need to convince you of what ultimately needs to be done, I instead ask you what you are doing to convince your colleagues of what needs to be done.

Why are the Republicans willing to betray their oaths? Why are they complicit in this un-American insanity? Some are corrupt, surely. Some are too stupid to understand what’s happening, I suppose. But most, I have to think, are simply cowards. Afraid of retribution from Trump and/or his secret militia of pardoned January 6th terrorists, afraid of blackmail material coming out, or, most pathetically, afraid of losing their reelection bids. Am I wrong?

Can some of these Republican cowards not be convinced that the United States of America as a nation of freedom and the rule of law and global leadership is worth defending? Can they not be made to see that history will not look kindly upon them when this regime inevitably falls, that they will be remembered as fascist collaborators and enablers of, at best, the diminishment of the United States as a world leader? At worst, as willing pawns in the downfall of what used to be the world’s greatest democracy? As the supporting architects of a dystopian future of secret police and environmental catastrophe and regular pandemics and economic calamity and a new dark ages?

I wish I was being hyperbolic with that, but if Trump isn’t stopped that is the logical outcome. He needs to be removed. We can worry about prosecutions and such later, but right now he needs to be stopped.

Since each Cabinet officer was chosen for his or her fealty and commitment never to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump no matter how crazy he is or how corrupt or what atrocities he commits, the only answer is Congress. Impeach him. Do it now. Seriously, where are the attempts to bring impeachment articles to the floor? Even if they won’t go anywhere, even if Mike Johnson refuses to give them the least bit of hearing, they need to be attempted. And we need to hear about it. Ideally from many Democrats, not just yourselves. I’m under no illusions that they’ll be immediately successful, but the nation and the world needs to see that there are elected leaders in the United States that comprehend the danger we’re in and that action is urgently required to remove this tyrant.

Meanwhile, I want to implore the caucus to assign various members to start drafting reform legislation. Assuming we can thwart the inevitable attempts by the Trump regime to rig the midterm elections, you will no longer be in the minority party next year and we need to hit the ground running in January. In the event Democrats gain a veto-proof majority (unlikely, I realize), having reform bills ready to pass can only help the cause of recommitting this country to its Constitutional principles.

As I said, you all are among the best representatives an American can have working on his/her behalf already. So I’m basically screaming into the void here with superfluous calls for sanity. But it’s what we’ve got.

Try. Please.