Three weeks into the second Trump administration, one thing is clear: To limit chaos domestically and internationally, the wrecking ball-in-chief must be removed from the Oval Office.
The sooner the Democrats start working in unison to achieve this goal, the sooner the ship of state will becstabilized, tge sooner Trump’s and Elon Musk’s destruction derby will be stopped.
More than democracy and the rule of law in the United States are at stake.
The questiin facing tge Democrats is hiw much more destruction will take place before they wake up and mobilize to act in unison tn remove the President from office.
We argued on January 29 that it was not too soon to speak of 47’s removal.
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Is it too soon to speak of removing 47?
It is never too soon to think of the steps that might be necessary to defend our democracy. We are talking about a president who has already led an attempted coup d’état. He is not entitled to a presumption he will act legally or in good faith.
A prudent course would be for the Democrats to start gathering the evidence and building the case for 47’s removal. Then, as each new outrage adds elements to their brief, they should be engaging their Republican counterparts in conversation.
As the “high crimes and misdemeanors” mount, the day may come when their Republican colleagues’ fear of a lame duck president diminishes, and they start thinking about the future, and even national security and the national interest.
Of course, Vice-President J.D. Vance represents a considerable risk himself. He appears to be guided mainly by extreme personal ambition. But while he appears totally unprincipled, to date he does seem to be rational. Whether he aspires to be a dictator or not is unknown.
Is it too soon to be speaking about the removal of 47?
As non-Nazi Germans who lived through the first months of 1933 could attest, it is better to be too soon than to be too late. As they did in Germany in January, February, and March1933, events can succeed one another very quickly in some circumstances.
There is always the possibility of an extraordinary, unforeseen event.
Like a Reichstag fire.