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Jason Wilson
Thursday 18 May 2017 12.11 EDT
... Ross Douthat .. the New York Times in-house religious conservative ... argues .. Trumps mental faculties are so atrophied .. that he could and should be removed under .. the 25th amendment ...
John Daniel Davidson .. at .. The Federalist ... attempts to rebut .. Douthat ... Removing Trump would spark conflict in a precariously divided nation; elites should not seek to override the will of the American people without serious reasons for doing so, and the materials leaked to date dont measure up; and the leaking campaign is itself disturbingly anti-democratic ...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/18/burst-your-bubble-conservative-pundits-trump
still_one
(92,482 posts)impeachable offenses no matter where it leads
UTUSN
(70,771 posts)BootinUp
(47,207 posts)deserve a democracy any more.
eleny
(46,166 posts)I'm not ready to finger wag at the mirror. Let it play out. Our constitution, our rule of law, our democracy is stronger than Trump and his fascist cabal.
BootinUp
(47,207 posts)it does my heart good. Unfortunately I do not think there are enough like minded citizens at this point.
eleny
(46,166 posts)We're a microcosm. And btw, everyone deserves democracy. That's just a given, no?
BootinUp
(47,207 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)Nite!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Has Davidson forgotten that President Trump didn't win a majority of the popular vote? Trump didn't even win a plurality of the vote! Trump was installed through a combination of holdover appeasement of slaveholders in the Constitution, a sophisticated and relentless program of voter suppression, and a yet-to-be-ascertained bit of skullduggery from foreign and domestic interference.
Take away that numbskull's crayons before he "writes" another column.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)when so many of "the people" are so deceived by FOX and right wing talk radio?
Jack-o-Lantern
(974 posts)FOX-bots. There is no reasoning with them as they continue to pull away from their last vestiges of reason, rationality, and sanity digging their heels ever deeper into the madness of all out 100% tRump support no matter what, come hell or high water.
I have known these people since childhood, and that is some 50 years ago. We were close friends through thick and thin
. Until now... but because of a last e-mail, never again.
Slip-sliden away, slip sliden-away
.
I know a man, he came from my home town
He wore his passion for his Trump like a thorny crown.
Slip sliden away.