Dear Editor: When You Lay Down With Dogs...

Dear Editor,

My inclination to be active in politics has been minimal. I had a farm to run and sons to raise. I marched in the '80s for reproductive rights and again in 2016 to protest Trump's presidency. I've signed the odd petition, always voted, always paid my taxes.

Regardless of the political party in power and I've voted for both, I have never felt that this Republic or the democratic principles on which it is based were at risk. That has changed.

We have a convicted felon with no respect for the law who is a lame duck president protected by the Supreme Court from prosecution for illegal...