Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Here is the first paragraph of this Associated Press story:

As much of the U.S. government remains shut down over President Donald Trump’s insistence on funding for his border wall, nearly half of Americans identify immigration as a top issue for the government to work on this year.

Here’s how it would read if the AP weren’t biased:

As much of the U.S. government remains shut down over congressional Democrats’ refusal to fund a border wall, nearly half of Americans identify immigration as a top issue for the government to work on this year.

Keep in mind that this is from a “reputable” news organization.

I was sworn in as an attorney 35 years ago today, on 4 January 1984. Tempus fugit.

Donald Trump clearly has been reckless in his recent behavior, which has included his closing down of our government and his impulsive decisions to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan, provoking the resignation of General James Mattis as secretary of defense. Many have noted Trump’s rejection of all normal procedure and his increasing isolation. We would argue that both are expressions of his psychological inability to collaborate with others or receive their counsel in relation to sustained policies and principles. This is so because Trump’s reality is completely solipsistic, that is, self-contained, unrelated to truth or evidence. Nothing could be more dangerous in a head of state, and there is every reason to believe that his psychological condition will continue to deteriorate under the stress of criticism, crisis, and investigation.

Unfortunately, our constitutional arrangements for removing presidents from office focus more on acute medical or mental breakdown than on this kind of manifest unfitness. Yet it remains the responsibility of our elected political leaders to find a means of ending the Trump presidency and protecting our country and the world from the profound threat he represents.

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton

New York

Dr. Judith L. Herman

Cambridge

Lifton, a psychiatrist, is a lecturer at Columbia University, and Herman is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2019

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Here is George Neumayr’s latest column.