No, because Pence. Trump is unpredictably evil, and if you go back a few years, he was a downright saneish liberal Democrat, so I have some (withering) hope that he may become that again once he’s actually in the White House.
Pence is predictably, steadfastly, and deplorably evil.
Between the two, I’d rather have the orange toddler in the position, making ridiculous moves that can easily be undone by the Supreme Court, rather than Pence, who would be much more effective at entrenching his evil in ways that will be hard to reverse.
Gotta go with Frank on this one. Watergate was quicksand. Nixon was a dark, dark guy, which meant he got no sympathy from moderates. Of course, things were less partisan then too.
But Watergate was its own little hurricane on its own little planet. It had everything to do with Nixon’s actions all the way through, and nothing to do with the economy, Vietnam or anything else.
And to answer the OP, no, not in the sense of having a more senstitive trigger finger. Although I think maybe Trump would be quicker than others to commit something egregious.
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.
The guy was like Dick Dastardly, stopping to set traps for the other Wacky Racers when he was way out in the lead (as evidenced by the fact that he had time to set the traps).
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.
Yeah, if you thought the Tea Party decimated the ranks of moderate Republicans in the Congress and Statehouses in 2010/12/14, imagine Trumpetista candidates showing up for the 2018 midterm cycle with their Man crying for his betrayal to be avenged. Heck he has *already *begun prepping the soil for that anyway.
It’s understood that he resigned, but that wasn’t really his “choice.” And no, he did not get us out of Vietnam – Saigon fell after he left office in 1975. The economy was also pretty bad as well. No president faces the threat of removal from office if America’s feeling good about itself. That was the point and I’m 100 percent right about it and not interested in discussing it further.
However, let’s say that the economy collapses and people attribute our economic decline to Trump – well then yes, people would support impeachment. They’re not going to impeach Trump unless it’s politically feasible to do it.
Right wing voters don’t give a fuck about Trump’s or Republican’s disregard for the Constitution or democracy generally – it’s dangerously naive to assume that they do. They would bitterly oppose any attempt to remove Trump for merely abusing executive privilege. He would have to be viewed as a weak, incompetent, ineffectual leader who is ruining their bank accounts and endangering their security for him to face the threat of impeachment.
I see no reason to treat a president Trump differently from any other president. If he was elected, it would be the will of the American people just like it will be if Hillary wins. The last thing we need is the precedent set that impeachment starts on inauguration day.
Strategically, no. An impeachment over his first offense would be too likely to result in an acquittal. Wait until he’s committed four or five serious offenses, in order to guarantee a conviction.