The long, hot summer.

I remember it. the interval between June 17 1972 and August 9 1974 -- in between the time of the Watergate break-in and Nixon's resignation from office. The whole thing started over a relatively minor break-in at the Watergate, and spun out into conspiracies to silence people, fired Justice Department officials, congressional committees, and finally, the President who originated the phrase "It's not illegal if the President does it" resigned from office hours ahead of being impeached.
Now, 45 years later, we have another President who is working under a cloud of suspicion and derision. Suspicion because he and his campaign staff have, by all appearances, colluded with a hostile foreign power in using illegal means to gain information with which to alter the outcome of the election, and possibly even with Russian attempts to hack election boards nationwide. Further, The President has openly denied even the possibility of hacking or election tampering. Further, the President has fired the Director of the FBI in order to stonewall or stall the investigation that might show his people up as corrupt criminals. There are other, less notable things, but it is slowly becoming clear that there is a serious issue at hand here, one that might very well end the Trump presidency in an impeachment and removal from office.

Now we sit and wait while the wheels of justice turn. They turn slowly at most times, but now we have a highly polarized partisan congress to deal with. The people are doing what they can, by offering resistance to the partisan agenda of the president and of his allies in congress. It could be that partisan politics prevent justice from happening. Everyone is waiting and hoping. There is a special prosecutor. There are congressional committees. And now, I hear there is a resolution moving in congress to establish a 25th amendment commission to determine if the President is mentally stable enough to hold office. There are many indicators that he is not, but will the commission ever be formed ? Mr. Trump is putting out insulting tweets at the rate of several a day, with seemingly no limits to his vulgarity. He is making speeches in which he digresses into tirades against what he calls "The lying media". He stands up there on the podium and postures and poses like Mussolini. (No, I'm not indulging in metaphor or simile, his poses actually look like he cribbed them from the Iron Prelate himself. ) He has his press reps say one thing in the morning and then Tweets the exact opposite at night. He has a secretary of state whom he attempts to cripple by saying the opposite of what Mr. Tillerson says. His UN Ambassador is a loose cannon, whom he allows to say whatever, and then he ignores her. He is vain, cruel, selfish, an injury collector and a manipulator. He has a thin skin, volcanic temper and absolutely no self control. And this is the man we have at the helm of the mightiest armed forces ever created. He has control of roughly 6800 nuclear weapons with various delivery systems that can blast the heart out of a city in anywhere from 20 minutes to 4 hours. This man, who has alienated almost all of our allies, could take it in his mind at any moment to use those launch codes. Meanwhile, we sit and wait, and march and protest, while highly polarized politicians worry about whether or not the President has an (R) or (D) after his name. I hope quite sincerely that the rational ones among them can band together with those on the other side of the aisle and do the necessary to save the nation. Can they rise above the partisan divide?
Much more than the future of which party is in control is at stake. Another long, hot summer.