Republicans like Pence and Mitch Mcconnell have a lot to answer for as well. They molly-coddled Trump because he could give them a conservative SCOTUS and other policies as well.
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That’s the key point.
What happend yesterday can be viewed in one of two ways. The end of something, or the start of something.
My take is Trumps actions where all based on a long term plan. Undermine Bidens presidency. Not an expectation that it will be overturned yesterday but sow division and hatred, so that he can run again in 4 years upon this backdrop.
It’s essential for me Trump is charged for his actions (even if they only get him on tax)
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Not the best and the brightest, then? Shocking.
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If Tommy Tuberville can win a Senate seat in Alabama, Trump certainly can.
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This is what I meant to say above and couldn’t say well. Exactly this.
“Awww come on, people, we were just kidding around when we said trial by combat. You really believed us? Come on! Now settle down and let’s go fight.”
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The 25th Amendment is only a temporary measure, which the president can resist. It takes two-third of both chambers to override his resistence, so it is actually more difficult than impeachment.
As the House has declared it will not meet again until after the inauguration, impeachment is not a real possibility at this point. We’re just at the moment of running out the clock and making sure the guy with the nuclear codes actually has a suitcase full of chocolates.
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His movement is certainly not dead, and the GOP will struggle with it for quite some time. The question is if the GOP is permanently gone MAGA, or if they can some how, even though I don’t see it right now, swim back against the stream towards Conservatism. No one with any real political knowledge will call the MAGA movement and Trumpism conservative without knowingly lying.
Most of the Conservatives I read think the GOP are permanently gone from Conservatism and that they need a new actually Conservative party, but some hold out hope that the GOP can be saved. It’s a big problem that conservatives have been purged though, the ones voted into Congress under have been either MAGA believers (because of Trumps loyalty checks) or cynical people trying to play the MAGA as careerists. The latter, while slimes who should never ideally be politically forgiven and allowed to go on as if nothing happened after Trump is gone, can work in a conservative movement again technically, but the previous, the believers, they are now a big, big problem for the GOP.
But time will tell. For what it is worth, I do think yesterday actually damaged the MAGA movement a lot, and may, maybe, maybe, contribute to a swing back towards Conservatism.
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That wasnt the point, it was about returning to the Presidency. On that, he is ruined.
They can call an emergency session, no?
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You’re too optimistic, my friend. This is about Hobbes. I’d say 2024 is still within reach for him.
It commences…
This is not time for Lord of the Rings references…but wow, there is some hate out their for Trump, even your kind self.
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Of course, but drafting articles, debating them, organizing a Senate trial, it all takes time. Not sure there is enough, and almost surely there aren’t the votes among Republicans to accomplish it.
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Howling. But I was talking about Thomas and Leviathan.
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I know, where life is nasty british and poore 
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I love my country and I love its laws. They have given me a lot. For me, it’s less about hating Trump and more about preserving what I cherish (rightly or wrongly).
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Two years in the Senate could construct a new platform while keeping his faithful - and is not a scenario many Republicans would want to deal with.
The slab on Stalin’s grave is reputedly solid all the way down to the coffin…
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Seriously, Trump submitting to be merely one of one hundred? Or did I misunderstand this topic?
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Find and replace?
I suspect the House would get it through in no time at all. Senate trial is another matter entirely.
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