The sooner the better for the Republicans. The people may forget enough by '18.
That is the question they have to be asking themselves. They can't control him. He's a not just a dumpster fire, he's a fucking landfill set ablaze. There's nothing that can rehabilitate him to a degree that he won't put Congress in the hands of Democrats come 2018.
On the other hand, the GOP is fucking persistent. Their collective legs never stop churning. No matter how bad the policy, no matter how horrible the scandal, they ignore it and press forward with one evil idiotic voice.
I have to think they're wargaming the Impeach Trump v. Don't Impeach Trump scenarios. But things keep getting worse on a daily basis. Two weeks ago, they may have decided they could keep him as long as X. And whatever that plan or line of thinking was, it's been tossed out the window.
So yeah, it comes to whether the GOP will do what they've always done, or if they'll feel forced to punt his ass out and hope to recover within the coming 16 months.
Yeah, t's really the GOP that continues to astound me here, proving on a daily basis themselves that they aren't any any more fit to lead the country than Trump. I mean, Trump is going to be who he is. I'm a Democrat (although I was in independent until I registered to vote for Bernie) and so I get it. People accuse the GOP of all kinds of things, call them names, say they're evil, and stupid, and so on and so forth. I've known I had a pretty intensely different outlook than they do on politics, but I also took the "evil" thing with a grain of salt. I tried to give
some amount of charity. Yet, they are really
doing their best to look like the caricatures others have of them.
Although the Democrats and their party certainly seem to be in a state of disarray, I really do think that the GOP is in even a worse state. Their ideology has gone so far right, and their base has gone so extreme and frankly, stupid, that the Republican party now finds itself in a position from which it cannot govern. The party that has made a show of wearing their patriotism on their sleeve has shown that they are anything but patriotic. The have stood by, pointedly watching as Trump has done his level best to destroy our democracy. The Republicans have been pursuing a single party rule for some time now, as evidenced buy their extensive gerrymandering and voter suppression. In many ways they are frighteningly close to that goal. They have 32 legislative state governments and hold 33 Governor seats. Now the leader of that party is an imbecile that holds no democratic values in high esteem. They have stood by and watched as an adversarial foreign power manipulated our electoral process, and continues to do so with our allies and our president. They have stood on their hands as Trump has tried to remove our checks and balances of power, and removed or ignored important ethical concerns involving corruption - a rot that can destroy any government from within.
I remember when they had a conniption shit fit because Obama bowed once on a foreign trip. They investigated Benghazi for years at huge expense, and virtually ignored Yemen, after saying every American life is precious. They voted against Obama attacking sites in Syria after chemical weapons were used, accused him of doing nothing, and then when Trump did so they overwhelmingly supported the action. Their hypocrisy is on constant and blatant display for all to see.
Even when they hold all the all the levers of power they cannot pass any legislation. They have been the party of "NO" for so long that the have allowed their policy analysis divisions to atrophy. Almost all of their bills are entirely written by their corporate sponsors and merely require their votes and signatures. This is another reason they do not read the bills set before them. Thus when they must come up with any legislation that is original, it's simply awful, and then subject to a purity test where it must pass muster with the most extreme, ideological and inane of their number. The few unwavering principles they do share are out of date, unrealistic, or have been shown to be wrong for decades. Lower taxes stimulate the economy, higher minimum wage slows down business growth, all regulation of economic activity is bad, the Christian religion should be legislated and dominate politics, hard work yields wealth.
They have sat there and watched Trump damage this country extensively, hoping and praying that they'll be able to somehow pass some kind of legislation themselves before the inevitable crash and burn.
Whether Trump is removed by this investigation, quits himself, or it comes time to vote for 2018, this party does not deserve to rule a banana republic, much less the United States of America.
