How low can he go?

It is not surprising that Trump would use Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar as a prop to whip up his base. His retweet of a video juxtaposing Omar's comments about how the 911 attacks brought erosion of American Muslims' civil liberties with planes hitting the Twin Towers was not intended to provoke death threats against Omar. It was intended to keep his base in line for the 2020 election. But it most certainly did provoke an uptick in death threats, so much so House Speaker Pelosi ordered Capitol Police to conduct a security assessment to safeguard Congresswoman Omar, her family and staff. We've seen Trump play this disgusting, irresponsible gambit directed against anyone who suffices as a target for his Neanderthal supporters since he announced his presidential bid four years ago this June. His mocking of reporters and rally protesters has led to some physical confrontations with those supporters with Trump either egging them on ("Beat the crap out of them") and defending them if arrested for violence ("I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees"). But he reached a new level of mendacious incitement by directing that tactic at a congresswoman who also fits Trumps racist and Xenophobic profile of a person of color and the Muslim faith.

The mainstream Republicans who enable Trump's debasement of our civil and political culture utterly disgrace themselves as public servants. Trump doesn't know better; they do. We don't know if any damaging information regarding Trump may come from the full Mueller Report and his tax returns that would warrant impeachment on the legal grounds of high crimes and misdemeanors. But we know enough that Trump deserves impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate for high moral crimes against Congresswoman Omar, the entire country and the Constitution he swore to uphold.