Meanwhile, I thought Politico had a good article about the 25th Amendment (and the author's certainty that it could not - yet - be used against Trump, even though apparently some White House insiders have discussed it.)
Politico also has an article criticising many liberal historians' takes on the history of conservatives.
Finally, although I don't pay much attention to Andrew Sullivan any more, I think he has a neat analogy here:
Sometimes I think it’s useful to think of this presidency as a hostage-taking situation. We have a president holding liberal democracy hostage, empowered by a cult following. The goal is to get through this without killing any hostages, i.e., without irreparable breaches in our democratic system. Come at him too directly and you might provoke the very thing you are trying to avoid. Somehow, we have to get the nut job to put the gun down and let the hostages go, without giving in to any of his demands. From the moment Trump took office, we were in this emergency. All that we now know, in a way we didn’t, say, a year ago, is that the chances of a successful resolution are close to zero.
1 comment:
Steve,
The 25th amendment is something that occurs AFTER a certain incident which provides evidence that something needs to be done. For example Trump orders North Korea to be nuked
Trying to something before anything occurs means it becomes very political.
won't happen
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