At what point do we vote country over party?
In May of this year, John Boehner announced that: "There is no Republican Party. There is a Trump Party. The Republican Party has gone, taken a nap somewhere."
The entire Trump Party (no exceptions, including Peter Roskam) has refused to engage in any kind of oversight of the president. They are instead, consistently defending him. They are in effect protecting the president over the Constitution of the United States. They all signed an oath to protect all Americans and our Constitution, not the president.
Trump's continued public acts (as he just did again in recent tweets) of demonizing the DOJ, the FBI and our free press is tearing at the threads that hold our country together as a free nation. The Justice Department is not a tool of the president's personal power.
If the Trump Party maintains control of Congress in the fall elections, just imagine how emboldened Trump would feel about mounting a full-on assault on the rule of law by shutting down the Mueller investigation.
The abandonment of the "rule of law" is a threshold value that demands country over party. If you agree, I strongly implore you to take action by voting the Trump Party out of office this Fall. Many traditional Republicans will not find this easy, but you will be providing a required "serious wake-up call" that could save the GOP from itself.
We are all American citizens first and foremost. The Trump Party refuses to act in defense of our democracy. Now it's your turn, vote the Trump Party out.
John Wolaver
Glen Ellyn