At What Point Do Statesmen Take a Stand?

Americans should be repulsed into action, having witnessed the outrageous behavior and performance of Donald Trump as President. Are they?

The polls show that most Americans favor any leading Democratic candidate over Donald Trump. That does not answer the question to what extent are they outraged and angered to the point of resisting, rejecting, and revolting?

Most media reports consistently say that President Trump's authoritarian behavior imperils democracy. A few Republicans hint as much, though most incumbents are content to go along with Trump.

If America is on the brink of losing the qualities of the democratic republic and rule of law, then one might expect more. For instance, why would not all of the former living Presidents stand as one to encourage Congress to impeach the President?

If it is as bad as Joe Scarborough routinely reports, then where are the Statesmen coming to the rescue?

There is at least one, and that is Elizabeth Warren. 

"Donald Trump’s Republican Party is not the party of LincolnBy Sidney Blumenthal 

September 4President Trump extemporaneously speaks about Abraham Lincoln as if he were his rival. He has boasted that his poll numbers are greater than Lincoln’s, though there were no opinion polls in the 19th century. He has invidiously compared Lincoln with one man he always casts as heroic and whose monuments he defends as sacrosanct: “a great general,” Robert E. Lee.

And yet, to ward off criticisms of Trump’s bursts of racist rhetoric, Republican leaders reflexively play the Lincoln card. “We are the party of Lincoln,” proclaimed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to shield Trump with the icon of the Great Emancipator.

But the party of Trump is the antithesis of the party of Lincoln, the culmination of a long realignment. Beginning in the 1960s, the party embraced a Southern strategy, forsaking the remnants of its Lincolnesque heritage in exchange for the principles of states’ rights and resistance to civil rights for African Americans previously associated with the neo-Confederate Dixiecrat wing of the Democratic Party. As a result, the Republican Party changed its identity and abandoned its original principles, becoming strikingly similar to the very opponents that roused Lincoln to resist in the beginning." 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/04/donald-trumps-republican-party-is-not-party-lincoln/