Thread by @SethAbramson

Is there any word for blaming your countrymen for an attack on them by hostile foreign soldiers besides "traitorous"?

I don't see how we call Donald Trump anything but a traitor to the United States now. This is a line in the sand every American needs to be on the right side of.

2/ Now Trump—who betrayed America while abroad by taking the side of hostile foreign soldiers against innocent American civilians—has declared the European Union America's foremost enemy. There's no way any American can justify that sort of language. The GOP must call Trump home.

3/ Congress would be not just justified but honoring its sworn duty to hold hearings on the statements made by Mr. Trump overseas and the question of whether he intends to uphold his Oath of Office to protect America and honor its alliances. His comments today are *that* obscene.

4/ Trump—who is nominally the nation's chief law enforcement officer—also said it never occurred to him to ask Russia to extradite for prosecution the defendants his Department of Justice just indicted for attacking the United States. That statement alone should provoke hearings.

5/ He then went even further and said he plans to work on a treaty with Putin—who has been revealed as the mastermind of a military-style attack on the United States and continues to deny his actions and make no assurance he will cease what Trump's DNI says is an ongoing assault.

6/ I don't care whether the things I've said here should happen are likely to happen. I don't need anyone to tell me what the likelihood is or is not that they will happen. Someone in America needs to keep saying what *damn well should happen* whether it's going to happen or not.

7/ Somewhere along the way we got so cynical we stopped saying the things we knew should happen because we decided they were impossible. But one of the reasons they *became* that way is because we stopped insisting on them. We *must* keep insisting Republicans be Americans first.