Stop Demonizing the FBI

I see that the Republican propaganda network is relentlessly doing Trump's bidding in attempting to undermine both Robert Mueller and the FBI.  And it appears that congressional Republicans are only too happy to join in.  So I thought I would take the time to point out some facts which are obvious to everyone, and thus certainly to a smart guy like yourself:

• Like all Americans, FBI agents are entitled to their political opinions.
• Not all FBI agents are going to be Trump supporters --- and this should surprise no one, as Trump is historically unpopular, with some polls showing him at 32 percent approval.
• While I agree that FBI agents should not publicly discuss their support or opposition to a president, the text messages which started this whole ridiculous witch hunt were private, and we only know about them because they were sent on government-owned phones.
• The agents in question may think Trump is an "idiot", but they think Bernie is an "idiot" too, and "worried about what happens if HRC is elected".  This is not exactly a smoking gun proving that the FBI is biased in the Democrats' favor.
• Also, Trump is, objectively speaking, an idiot.
• The bigger concern should be why the DOJ appears to have selectively leaked only the anti-Trump texts to Congress.  This appears to be a clear-cut case of Trump's Justice Department interfering with an ongoing criminal investigation, by attempting to discredit both the FBI and Robert Mueller.
• The logical consequence of the Republican argument --- that it's inappropriate for Trump critics to be part of the investigation --- is that the only people qualified to investigate Trump are those who believe he's done nothing wrong.  That is clearly an absurd position.  It also reveals that Republicans must implicitly understand that Trump is actually guilty of wrongdoing if they don't believe his actions can withstand critical scrutiny.
• Sadly, it appears that House Republicans are now planning to use this manufactured controversy as an excuse to shut down their (admittedly Potemkin) probe into Trump's transgressions.

This last point is where you come in.

Surely, you have watched voters in Virginia and Alabama turn out in higher-than-usual numbers for an off-year election, to make sure that they vote Democrats into office.  There is little doubt that these elections mark the start of a trend, which is likely to result in an electoral tsunami in 2018 which will wash Republicans out of the House of Representatives.  I fully expect you to be taken out in that wave, and I expect you do, too.  So I'm not writing to you on the subject of your electoral survival.

I'm writing to you about your legacy.

Four years from now, when adults once again control all the levers of power in government, the Trump administration will be remembered as a corrupt and incompetent regime of unprecedented magnitude.  And when people talk of the Republican 115th Congress, do you want to be remembered as one of the dozens of Republicans who did the president's bidding in an effort to sweep his misdeeds under the rug?

Or do you want to be remembered as one of the few Republicans who took a courageous stand for the rule of law?  Someone who placed principle ahead of party, and acted in the best interest of the country, despite weathering the scorn and derision of his colleagues?

I'm telling you congressman, your legacy is all you're going to have left come January 2019, and you have a very short time to build it.  You know which side is the right side of history.  Do you have the courage to be on it?