Vote: Stop the Trump Cancer from Metastasizing

Today, I cast my vote in the US midterm elections. I used to be a Republican and I am, for the most part, a social and economic conservative. I left the Republican Party after I found that it was a laundry for White intolerance masquerading as conservatism. Today, I voted straight Democratic. There was a Nigerian woman, Felicia Folarin, on the ballot in my home county of Prince George's, Maryland. I voted against her because she was a Republican, and I did not see anything in her campaign to suggest she would challenge the dominance of the Alt-Right in the party of Trump.

For me, it was more important to check, and then excise the Trump cancer than anything else. The Republicans in Congress have given a pass to Trump's misogyny, racism, and other malevolence. Many American historians of repute insist that Trump is not the worst that America has seen, that everything will be just fine and people need not worry.

I disagree. My own knowledge of American history teaches me otherwise. Trump is a uniquely evil and dangerous phenomenon. He is cancer that must not be allowed to metastasize. Two years of Republican-controlled Congress with Trump as President has exposed the fragility of America's democracy and the supporting doctrines in the supremacy of the rule of law. The minimum that must be done in this midterm election is to vote in a House of Representatives that will have and exercise the oversight power, especially Congress's subpoena power, which is the bedrock of America's checks and balances system.