I hope your dad gets better. I voted for McMullin. The boomers could have done the same.
Pointing out Trump's weakness is not whining, it's a fact. Trump is not growing stronger: not legislatively, not executively, not in the public opinion.
He must be removed.
I'm not sure McMullin was available on the ballot in every state. Added to that, you had the prisoner dilemma with him, the media ensured that. No one really seriously believed he had a chance. If the LWV had control of the debates again, this would not be a problem, would it? That is the corruption of the establishment at work, this you know. There is no way the establishment would have tolerated McMullin, any more than they would have tolerate Trump.
As far as "removing Trump?"
That's what elections are for.
The reason there is so much acrimony, is there is still a war going on with in the Deep State and the Bureaucratic Establishment. It carries over into the elite press, and those who let their thinking be affected by the CFR media, are easily manipulated by that.
It was my opinion that the all of these big media personalities and political folks being brought down by accusations of harassment by women were part of a larger strategy to take Trump down.
These older men were quite sure that although they DNC was clearly playing dirty politics in the Roy Moore election, (note the yearbook scam that they refuse to put up to forensic analysis,) there isn't anything short of a JFK or Nixion type break-in to pin on the POTUS that will do the job.
NOT that they won't quit trying. Trump is a private sector man, and the interests of the private sector are here to stay.
The media, big intel. and other huge interests will not stop trying to take him down, but he has some powerful allies.
Much of what the public sees? That is all a distraction, and purposeful one too. He throws out red meat for the low info voters, he needs them. It is the higher IQ, higher educated ones that are more easily swayed by the slick propaganda of Madison Ave.