When will the people with the power to rid the country of the menace that is Donald Trump finally wake up and realize that enough is enough and begin proceedings to impeach him? If events of the last few weeks are not enough to convince them I don’t know what is. Clearly, this knuckle-dragger we have for President is unfit for office. While a majority of the electorate has recognized this fact since before the tweeter-in-chief was elected, the Congress has seen fit to continue to make excuses for the man and not do their constitutional duty and impeach him. It just shows the failure of our system of government, and how it has been, perhaps always was, co-opted and controlled by well-heeled special interests.

Let’s examine for a moment just what The Donald has been up to recently. He has moved the country and the world perilously close to nuclear devastation by daring the North Koreans to attack the United States or its allies. This is insanity run amok. It is one thing to use such provocative language against sane leaders, who would most likely brush them off as so much hot air, understanding that they are not meant for them directly, but are used for domestic purposes, to play to one’s political base.

North Korea, however, is not led by a sane man. He is quite looney as is the American President, and certainly as unwise. This is a man who gets his jollies by seeing how much misery he can inflict on his people. He is young and he is foolish. He is filled with enough machismo to see Trump’s language as a personal affront, take the dare and act on it. Anyone who has read Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August, knows what the result will be. She was writing about the causes of World War I, which led to the deaths of 17 million people, and laid the groundwork for World War II, which killed more than 50 million. A nuclear response by North Korea would quite likely lead to the destruction of mankind or a world unfit for anyone or anything.

If the United States were led by a leader with knowledge and wisdom, a leader who recognizes the responsibility he has a leader of the most powerful country on the planet, he would do what past American Presidents did with the former Soviet Union and put pressure on the country via alliances, trade restrictions, and other diplomatic measures through a policy of containment to force change in the country and the way it operates. It would take time, but it does work. The Soviet Union, also a country like North Korea that put all its efforts toward building up its military and nuclear arsenal, finally collapsed from within from the sheer weight of its lopsided allocation of resources.

The same would happen to North Korea. Already, its long-time defender, China, is recognizing the threat that the North Korean regime poses to it and the world, and has agreed to put more pressure on the country through tougher sanctions and trade restrictions. Bombast coming from the Oval Office is not a proper response to China’s and the world’s efforts vis-à-vis North Korea. A measured response with accompanying diplomatic initiatives, much as Obama used in the case of Iran and its nuclear ambitions, would be a much better approach worthy of an American President.

Unfortunately, Mr. Trump cannot stand the fact that his predecessor had more melanin in his skin than he does, and he is bound and determined to erase any remnant of Obama’s policies, in fact any evidence that Obama was President and inhabited the same house that Mr. Trump now does. Witness the tweeter-in-chief’s latest comments concerning the Charlottesville violence, claiming that both sides were responsible for what happened, in effect equating protest against racism and hatred with the racism and hatred being protested against.

While it may be true that it takes two to tango, it is wrong to legitimize racism and hatred by delegitimizing protest against the same. Mr. Trump doesn’t seem to realize that as President he represents all the people, but not just the people, but the principles upon which the country was founded and that are embedded in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Perhaps Mr. Trump should read the Declaration, or have it read to him, so he can inform himself about the principles upon which this country was founded and he swore to uphold as President. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

I doubt the white supremacists protesting in Charlottesville the removal of monuments to men who believed as they do were espousing the self-evident truths mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. It is my understanding that the white supremacists want to deprive anyone not like them of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

If Mr. Trump believes as the white supremacists do, and it seems that he does by delegitimizing protest against the hatred and racism of the white supremacists, then, he does not believe in the principles of the country he was sworn to lead, and if so, he has no business being President. For the President, the leader of the land, to legitimize groups and beliefs that run counter to the principles he as President has sworn to uphold only shows that he is completely unfit to hold the job and office of President. Congress needs to do the job it was sworn to do and fire him now.