Author: Jason Sattler, Opinion columnist

Republicans invited extremists into the party, the White House and Congress. Corporations bet on the GOP and now must fix the damage they’ve done.

Trump’s shakedown of Zelensky looks a lot like a payoff to Putin that’s also an invitation for help in 2020. The remedy is impeachment and removal.

We now have President Pence plus Trump’s criminality, obstruction, aspiring authoritarianism and reliance on us to subsidize his family and businesses.

Biden’s middle-of-the-road malarkey is not the answer in 2020. No presidential candidate in my lifetime has better matched America’s needs than Warren.

Impeachment won’t rein in Trump. But it will end the normalcy fantasy and force elected Republicans to place their sacred honor behind his high crimes.

But the president will need more than top-notch political machinery to repeat in a state he barely won in 2016.

Most Democrats, including me, would gleefully support Biden over Trump or Pence. Yet it would be delusional to ignorethe brutal undertow facing him.

No amount of evidence will cure birtherism. And no wall will protect Trump’s followers from the fear of losing cultural dominance or majority status.