Crisis or opportunity

Events have now reached a stage many regard as a crisis in U.S. governance with the recent demand by D. Trump that Congress fund his border wall or he would shut down the government; this demand was considered by the Senate and a bill that would have kept the government running but provided zero funds for the border wall was passed by the Senate. Trump then shut down the government as threatened and financially hurt almost one million workers and disabled many government agencies.

Hopefully our government will be reopened soon. However, this misfortune and another event, the resignation of J. Mattis, our dissatisfied, outstanding secretary of defense, have underscored the corruption, dishonesty, dysfunction and failure of Trump. When the House of Representatives is recomposed in this coming late January, it will be time to impeach D. Trump so that the Senate can seize the opportunity to remove him from office.

Bruce McFadden

Cashmere, Wash.