One, impeachment, may be in the nation's/world's best interests but we already know the republicans don't see that remedy as being in THEIR best interests. That will also not happen.
Even if we were able to impeach and convict and remove Trump, what is there to make him actually leave?
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Trump is immune from the law, freeing him to break any and all laws and engage in any conspiracy to commit any crime just as long as he can claim he's "acting in his official capacity". And we are watching him and his administration openly commit terrible crimes and preparing to prepare ever more horrific crimes (eg, we can see the start of Pinochet-like
enforced disappearance of anybody and everybody who might oppose them, the enlistment of law enforcement at all levels directly participating in their crimes).
The GOP Congress has already given up its power (eg, "power of the purse") to Trump. Even if they were to finally find their spine and assert themselves, how could they expect the Executive Branch to honor their Constitutional power? Or even the Constitution? And what's to keep opposition members of Congress from getting disappeared? I'll return to the matter of impeachment below.
I don't think that the 2026 elections offer us any hope. Besides Congress having willingly emasculated themselves, Trump has replaced the agencies and offices for running the elections and for ensuring free and fair elections with his own psychophants who will do whatever he wants. The fix is already in! He promised his base that they would never have to vote again and he is keeping that campaign promise.
The Trump Administration has already signaled the intention of ignoring court orders and have already started doing so, albeit up to this point not yet directly refusing to obey a court order, but that step is not far away. The judiciary has no actual power to enforce its decisions, but rather must rely on the DOJ (eg, US Marshall Service). Well, DOJ has become enforcers of Trump's will and whims, so they're not about enforce any court decisions.
Remember, Trump kept praising President Andrew Jackson, especially the part where Jackson refused to abide by a
SCOTUS decision. An act that Trump appears to be chomping at the bit to emulate. Also remember how in his first term Trump had removed the Judiciary as the Third Co-equal Branch of the government from the government websites.
So, let's imagine the scenario where Congress finally wakes up and impeaches and convicts Trump and orders him removed from office. Who is going to enforce that removal? The DOJ? Nope! The courts? Nope, since they are being rendered just as impotent as Congress.
And even if Trump himself were to be removed, we still have the MAGAts entrenched in the Executive and in power.
Trump is not the problem! He's just the face of this hostile takeover of our country. He's just the enabler of their takeover
that they had been planning for decades.
Until someone exercises the third option ...
Trump is already planting his psychophants in the DoD and in the upper echelons of the chain of command. There can be no unified military response to this existential threat to national security and to the Constitution of the United States of America. Rather, any military response would have to be by individual lower echelon commands, which would also lead to a form of civil war within the military. Basically a massive cluster fuck with tons of collateral damage on the side:
Classic Stereotypical Vietnam War Military Logic:
It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.
More and more that looks like the most promising solution, but there's no coming back from it.
... we're fucked.
I'm trying to work in the ending of the movie,
M*A*S*H (1970), where the PA announcer reads off the cast ending with the Army driver in Tokyo delivering his line:
quote:
Driver: Goddamned Army!
PA: That is all!
But I just got up and haven't had my breakfast yet, so my writing skills haven't spooled up yet.
So, yeah, we're fucked. Even if we are able to defeat and purge this MAGAt pestilence, America will have been destroyed and there will be no way back.
Edited by dwise1, : Corrected "and having had my breakfast yet" to "and haven't had my breakfast yet". Sorry for the mistake, but I hadn't had my breakfast yet.
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