"Does anything matter any more? Are there really any rules?"
I think that's the unspoken attitude of a majority of America these days. Most probably don't know what "nihilism" means, but they sure know how to apply it to our present predicament.
They've seen Trump aides, campaign chairmen and surrogates thumb their noses at Congress by just basically telling them to go to hell with their "irrelevant" and "inappropriate" questions. And, there was no penalty; no consequence.
They know we now have a president whose personal "morality" involves 3 wives, 19 women who have credibly accused him of sexual assault, 1 (or 2, or---?) porn actresses with whom he has committed adultery and a civil suit, now dismissed, which alleged his rape of a 13 year old girl. And, the man is supposedly POTUS. No penalties. No consequences.
They have seen him mock and malign disabled people, war heroes, and Gold Star parents. They have heard him refer to klansmen and neo-nazis as "fine people". No penalties. No consequences.
Most of us, you see, thought that stuff was important; that there were some things that decent responsible people---especially those who sit in the Oval Office---just were not supposed to do. That may be a simplistic way of phrasing it, but I believe it's accurate.
As a nation, we are about to answer the questions posed in my title. Trump will either be impeached and convicted of his crimes and his minions appropriately punished---or not. If "not", the America I was born in, grew up in and assumed I would leave to my children and grandchildren will have died.
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