I am struggling with what I can do as an individual in response to our national crisis.
My very highly regarded Senator Pat Toomey, has his own questions of what to do going forward. Even if trump is impeached and thus barred from running again--it does not bar a trump surrogate and sure as God made green apples, jr for one, will be all too happy to stand in for dad---and be most like him. Make no mistake---there will be a ready made--and large--adoring base just waiting for the chance to vote this insanity in again.
Obviously, one immediate action for me is to leave the Republican Party, but that disenfranchises me in PA. We have a closed primary and I live in a red area. That means my greatest potential of empowering my vote is to remain a Republican. The conflict now, is that I see the Republican Party being trump and I am repulsed by him and the current version of the party. Worse yet, I see no effort internally to distance the party from trump---trump runs the show and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Changing my registration to independent puts me on the outside looking in at primary time. Registering as Liberation has the same results. I can't abide by the goals of the progressive Democratic wing and thus to go there is not attractive to me. My preference would be to stay---but the RNC is now whored and no purge seems likely.
I'm sure others here are having the same conflict---would you share your thoughts?