Republicans must renounce Trump to save US democracy

The president cannot be tamed, so it is time to put the national interest ahead of party politics, says Nina L Khrushcheva.  

After nine months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the leaders of the Republican Party appear finally to be waking up to the harsh reality that the US is standing at the edge of an abyss.

They have a choice: they can continue to collaborate with Trump, thereby sustaining his destructive leadership and courting disaster, or they can renounce him, finally putting their country’s democracy ahead of loyalty to their party/tribe.