To the 220 Republican members of Congress, to the 49 Republican senators, to thousands of state and local Republican elected officials around the country who have yet to disavow Trump:

Some of you are true believers—cultists—donning trash bags, preaching the good word as presented in the Trump Bible (made in China), and otherwise putting your faith in Vladimir Putin’s favorite rapist.

But many of you—most of you, I’d wager—are not. I’m not so naive as to begrudge politicians for being political animals; I understand why so many of you have stood behind your repugnant nominee for political expedience. I also understand why others have cloaked themselves in the safety of silence.

To you in this latter group, I want to say—you still have time. In a matter of hours, Americans will take to the polls. Either the criminal fascist will have managed to convince enough Americans that he gives a single, solitary shit about them, or—and we both think this is the more likely outcome—Americans across this amazing democracy, from both parties, will come together to close the door on one of the most cynical, hateful chapters in our history.

You still have time to write your name in the history books as someone who stood up and said no to violent nativism and a mass deportation program that would, by its very nature, require the use of large-scale internment camps. No to an America that abandons its fellow democracies to appease land-hungry autocrats like Putin. No to the idea that somehow massive tariffs are sound economic policy. And perhaps most importantly—you have time to say no to the idea that the government has a right to make unilateral medical decisions for all the women in this country and to state that women dying—who could have been saved with routine obstetrics—is absolutely unacceptable.

Or you can continue your silence and your implicit support of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest friend—a draft-dodging, coup-attempting bigot who lacks the moral fortitude or self-control to do even the most basic things, like not sexualizing his own daughter, not spreading racist lies about vulnerable communities, and not pining after the power held by the likes of Kim Jong-un.

Here is my pledge to you—stand up, speak out against the dark vision for our future that was articulated at that rally at Madison Square Garden. Do it today—while it still matters—and we will welcome your voice to the growing bipartisan coalition saying, “We are not going back.”

Or don’t—that is your choice. That is the beauty of America. But be sure, whatever you decide to do in these next few hours, the rest of us will never, ever forget.

Speak now or forever hold your peace.

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