From. http://www.salon.com/2017/07/13/donald-trump-jr-s-emails-wont-change-anything-his-dads-supporters-will-stay-loyal-no-matter-how-much-collusion-is-exposed/ Thus a painful truth for those patriotic Americans who oppose Donald Trump: He will not be impeached. His son’s emails basically admitting collusion with Russia will ultimately mean little if anything. Why is this? Because there is likely no amount of empirical evidence or facts that will turn the Republican Party and its supporters against President Trump. He is a tool for accomplishing the Republican Party’s goals of giving more money to the very richest Americans, punishing poor and working-class people, destroying the commons and the social safety net, creating a Christian theocracy, undermining the middle class, giving corporations full control over the country, destroying the environment, taking away women’s control over their own bodies, abusing Muslims, and denying the civil rights, freedom and equal citizenship of African-Americans and other people of color. In all, the Republican Party, its voters and the right-wing media have chosen political power over loyalty to country. In that context, Russia’s meddling in our presidential election to put Donald Trump in the White House is but a means to an end. I have written hundreds of essays about the rise of Donald Trump and what it tells us about American politics and culture. I am also in the process of writing a book on the same topic. In my writings on Donald Trump and this political moment, I have tried to warn and prepare readers for the reckoning that is coming to the United States. Yes, in some ways the reckoning has already arrived in the form of Trump’s fascism and the authoritarianism, bigotry and racism that fuel it. But there are worse things on the horizon in Donald Trump’s America. When the full scale and depth of Russia’s interference with last year’s presidential election are laid bare for the world to see, Donald Trump’s rule will be made wholly illegitimate. The Republican Party will then be implicated as a co-conspirator in one of the greatest political crimes in American history. Nevertheless, Republicans and other members of the American right wing will continue to support Donald Trump.