by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
As you may know, the A-bombs used on Japan in 1945 were initially thought up in an effort to stop Germany. So, as we march towards what appears to be a rather useless attempt to impeach Trump there’s something we need to keep in mind — what if in the end it’s not Trump obstructing justice that gets him, but him having lost his mind?
Now, let me qualify that statement. The more one thinks about it, the more one realizes that a very specific set of circumstances brought down Nixon. One was the economy tanked. The other was — as I understand it — Nixon was having health problems that prevented him from simply burning the tapes on the front lawn of the White House and serving out his term.
So, for the whole bonkers thing to sink Trump in any meaningful manner, something similar would have to happen.
Trump would have to lose it publically
If Trump were to go King George III on us in private, we likely would never know. Someone would take over tweeting for him. His Regency would manage to prop him up every once in a while for public appearances and we would never know until long after he was out of office. So the first step is he has to go nuts publically in a conspicuous fashion. He’s edging towards that now. But if he finally goes off the deep end it has to be in a way that is public. Otherwise, nothing matters, lulz.
The Economy Would Have To Tank
For there to be any chance that Trump would leave office other than Jan. 20th 2025, the economy would have to tank in a meaningful manner. I don’t want this to happen, but it has to happen if Trump is to ever leave office. One way we might find ourselves in a crisis is if Trump tweets the stock market into crashing and there’s no way to deny that he, specifically is responsible for it happening.
The GOP Would Have To Ditch Trump
This is never going to happen. Trump could start WWIII via a tweet, and they would still support Trump. But there is a greater than zero chance that Republican Elders might see the 2020 election coming and in a white knuckled political move decided to ditch Trump for Pence. Pence is a conservative darling and actually cogent. I just don’t see this happening. But if things got very, very, very bad, it’s at least possible they might begin to think about it.
The great conundrum of all of this is we’re virtually in an election year. So for every one step we get closer to getting rid of Trump, there would be a huge amount of talk about just letting him serve out his term and waiting for him to “self impeach.” I think this is bullshit for a lot of reasons. Chief among being populist autocrats don’t lose.
Put another way, I think in the end Trump has a better chance of being removed not for being a criminal, but for being nuts.
