It's conspiracy and obstruction, not collusion and hardball politics

The word collusion is insufficient to describe the damage Trump and his entourage did to America's electoral process. While deeply patriotic Americans had their hair on fire over real and substantial Russian interference in the 2016 election, Trump ignored or pooh-poohed the charges. He still does three years on. The reason is clear. Trump's minions had substantial contacts with Russians involving Russian offers of help, Trump's team meeting to discuss that help; indeed expressions of glee regarding it. That is conspiracy to subvert the election pure and simple.   

Trump's team characterizes his response as ordinary hardball political push back to partisan political attacks. Really? Lying to Congress, lying to the Mueller Investigation, directing illegal firing of the investigators, claiming absolute privilege not to cooperate is not hardball politics. It's obstruction of justice pure and simple. 

But in Trumpworld only underlings are convicted and jailed. 

The Democratic House majority must complete its ongoing investigation which may likely lead to formal impeachment. The politics of the 2020 election are irrelevant. Not completing that investigation and following its dictates would inadvertently subvert every decent principle of the presidency, the Constitution, our entire model of democratic governance. Nearly half of the House Democratic majority is on board with this most critical governmental oversight function. A few Republicans are as well. Once again we are at a crossroads of our noble political experiment. 

Don't take the wrong road, America.