# If Trump wins, should there be a quick trigger on impeachment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 22, 2016, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-should-there-be-a-quick-trigger-on-impeachment/769318 "2016-10-22T06:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-should-there-be-a-quick-trigger-on-impeachment/769318/27 "2016-10-22T16:27:16Z")
[More Nixon hijack] > [@JRDelirious](#): > > [continuing Nixon hijack] > > Right. Everyone might in fact have been out to get him, but they _would not have beat him_ except that he himself gave them the means. He could have coasted to a perfectly normal second term had he merely let the anger and scorn of the elites, the press, the left, slide off his back and not been so hung up on making sure he beat them. But he could not and that’s a weakness in a leader of a Great Power. You go after real threats, not after mere annoyances. > > [/continuing Nixon hijack] That’s why I’ve referred to Trump as Stupid Nixon in the past: He’s his own worst enemy. He destroys his own successes, and he makes his defeats even worse. Of course, with Nixon, it was a Greek Tragedy playing out, with a brilliant but flawed protagonist ultimately being destroyed by that most Greek of sins, hubris. With Trump, it’s more like watching Curly repeatedly whack himself on the head, get angry, and run headlong into another rake, over and over again. As per Marx, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as The Three Stooges. [/More Nixon hijack] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-should-there-be-a-quick-trigger-on-impeachment/769318)._