What kind of "adult," when faced with living with an addled patriarch/arsonist who is actively engaged in burning down the house, decides that their proper response is to suffer through the destruction of the living areas and all the family heirlooms as long as Crazy Pappy doesn't torch the filing cabinet in the basement containing Grandma's recipes?

The courageously anonymous White House insider who wrote the flabby, self serving, and ethically compromised opinion piece in the NYT says that it is important that we Americans "understand that their are adults in the room," but this creature is an even more terrifying figure than Donald Trump because he or she still contends that a constitutional crisis is worse than having an amoral wild man with his finger on the nuclear trigger.

The founding fathers understood that once they went the route of a popularly elected President, there was the risk that a lunatic or a crook would be elected. So they came up with the 25th Amendment and the impeachment process, respectively, to deal with those two scenarios and crafted the balance of powers that we Americans have long felt made this country something special.

We elected a President who is a crook AND a lunatic.

We elected a Congress that understands that the President is systematically destroying the rule of law in this country but that will never impeach and convict him.

One wing of that Congress is about to approve a new Supreme Court justice who will ensure that a solid majority on that Court will decide that the President is not subject to the rule of law.

This President chose a Cabinet that understands that their boss is dangerously deranged but who will never take steps to implement the 25th Amendment.

The carefully wrought balance of powers crafted in 1789 has failed, and failed utterly. Each of those powers--the Executive branch, the Congress, and the Judiciary--has, without a shred of conscience or hesitation or patriotism and with no fight, treasonously abandoned the country in favor of a crazed, crooked despot.

We need to stand up and take on the hard work of removing every one of these traitors--election by election, appointment by appointment.