Then his sorry ass could not be dragged out of the White House, even if he was impeached, right?
At least that is how I understand the procedure.
Trump’s faithful would watch their entire world fall apart, Sean Hannity’s head would explode like the guy in Scanners, and the Foxin’ Friends would self-immolate on live TV. Also, some bad things might happen.
Elsewhere on the internet last week, it was reported that the day after Trump’s impeachment that an old white guy in a retirement community started trying to shoot at people with his gun and that he was captured by police easily. It was implied that he didn’t like the impeachment.
In the comments under the article one person wrote, “See? This is what happens when idiots try an ‘armed revolt’ against the government and other people in 2019 just because their president got impeached.”
The brigade of down-votes from people who either bought into the gun hype or have their 401k invested in gun stocks was hysterical!
A federal judge was impeached and removed in 1989. He ran for Congress and won in 1993 and he’s still there. Alcee Hastings, he voted to impeach Trump. The House vote to impeach him was 413-2. He was convicted on 7 counts.
I doubt it will actually happen, but if it did, I would expect that there would be a massive amount of outrage and backlash against the Dems and/or the establishment Republicans who let it happen. While, yes, there are always some people who can’t accept losing gracefully, overall I think most people want the results of an election to stand. I think the majority of people who were disappointed with the outcome in 2016 had the reaction “Well, that sucks, but we’ll just have to try harder next time” instead of shrieking, “NOT MY PRESIDENT!” and becoming determined to remove him from office early at all costs. Unfortunately for the Dems, they have allowed the latter group to run the show since 2016, and I don’t think it is going to help them with the voters they need to convince (blue collar Midwesterners for example).
Dems tried to recall my state’s governor a few years back, and the governor won the recall election by a larger margin than he had won his original election. I think even people who didn’t LOVE him as a governor still thought the recall was unfair bullshit. Since Trump has a much larger, much more passionate fanbase than my former governor did, I expect the effect would be magnified. If Trump couldn’t run himself, I would expect that anyone who was seen as pro-Trump would fare better in the next election than the anti-Trumpers.
@skyr: The argument for getting rid of Trump as quickly as possibly generally points to the horrendous amount of overt damage he does every day that he remains in office, and the need to get rid of him before he can do much more.
The same was true, to some extent, of that former governor of yours. Witness, for example, that big power grab that he and the state legislature pulled during his lame-duck days.
For Tramp to be convicted and removed, irrefutable evidence of his blatant treasons must emerge, giving GOP senators cover. Otherwise he remains in office – unless an actual coup results when he orders something demonic like nuking Iran.