After the … let's call the "Recent Unpleasantness" in the US Capitol, people are called the immediate legal removal of Donald J. Trump from the Presidency of the USA.
I should note that US military official were waiting from VP Pence to give the go-ahead to deploy the National Guard, so might be already happening in an informal manner.
The goal is to make it impossible for anyone outside of anointed American nobility to have even the slightest possibility of holding office. Trump being elected in 2016 was one of the few truly off-script political shocker moments that any of us are likely to see in our lifetime. The establishment has just spent four years bending all of its efforts to completely ruining him both personally and as a brand to be associated with (a goal that he himself has provided no small assistance in achieving). After today's shenanigans, I think they might have just pulled it off, but we'll see what comes of all these machinations.
Ever read about Roman history?
Where various groups would force someone to be their emperor?
Trump is like that. He isnt the movement. He just happened to be the only lighting rod available to channel it.
Sometimes its the man that starts the movement. In this case its the movement that selects the man. If the man selected doesnt vibe with the movement then hes out
It won't be the left stopping Trump from running again in 2024. Any remaining political capital he had with the GOP has all but evaporated over the past 24 hours. If only he'd just accepted the election result - irrespective of any feelings or doubts he has about it - and started working quietly in the background on 2024...
Yes I know Trump could run as an independent... but nobody takes independent presidential candidates seriously.
It won't be the left stopping Trump from running again in 2024. Any remaining political capital he had with the GOP has all but evaporated over the past 24 hours. If only he'd just accepted the election result - irrespective of any feelings or doubts he has about it - and started working quietly in the background on 2024...
Yes I know Trump could run as an independent... but nobody takes independent presidential candidates seriously.
There rumors going about that the Trump cabinet is thinking of evoking the 25th Amendment. Dunno if that's true, but it does some air time on Fox News.
It won't be the left stopping Trump from running again in 2024. Any remaining political capital he had with the GOP has all but evaporated over the past 24 hours. If only he'd just accepted the election result - irrespective of any feelings or doubts he has about it - and started working quietly in the background on 2024...
It really doesn't matter. Half the country or more was highly dissatisfied with the direction the country has been heading in since the 2000s. That's not going to magically change when Trump is off on some tropical island and Obama's vice president is installed. Who cares about Trump's image?
I can see what Trump was trying to achieve and how he was able to bring so many people on board to support his vision; at least at the beginning. The thing is that one needs to fully understand the rules before one can go about breaking them. He didn't seem to understand them when we was elected, and he didn't really seem to learn that many along the way.
Whether it's hubris, ego, short-term vision, lack of impulse control or a combination of all these factors, Trump has done himself and the GOP a great disservice IMHO. I'm not so much angry at anyone as disappointed for the USA right now.
