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He's going to be really disappointed because this plan still depends on the moral actions of a Congress put in power by white boomer angst, and they haven't the slightest intention of doing anything resembling that.

 

The longer the Republicans wait, the worse the next Trump-generated crisis will be, and the next will be worse after than and so on. He's not going to get any better, just worse.

 

Trump assumes – insists? – that laws will bend around him. His buffoonery doesn't know how to adapt.

 

I don't know how anyone can see this and even remotely think Republicans will jump off the Trump ship:

‘Fox & Friends’: James Comey Might Be a Criminal

 

Worst president isn't the same as most unqualified, although we've got a hell of a contender to sweep the double. But Buchanan had a huge resume that indicated he at least had the potential to know what he was doing and navigate the White House. No serious, sane adult thought Trump was qualified. They voted him in through a combination of trolling and belief that his opponent was Jezebel reincarnated. Even if you want to play apologist for people that backed him in the general election (beyond my ability to empathize), I don't see how you can classify his primary voters as anything other than malignant dipshits.

 

Point taken.

 

R-Utah

 

It doesn't matter how long Republicans stay with him. In a poll published on August 5, 1974, taken over the previous three days, 60 percent of Republicans said Nixon shouldn't resign. He left Aug. 8. If the rest of the electorate (29 percent of adults self-identified in latest Gallup poll, same as Democrats) thinks Trump must go, he will, or his defenders in Congress will go first.

 

No offense, but this doesn't really answer anything I wrote. It's a lot of harrumphs.

John Kasich can run my country. Ted Cruz - aka Lucifer in the flesh! aka Mr. "I don't know if sand can glow in the dark, but we're going to find out!" - is precisely the kind the government Pharisee we gotta root out.

 

Nixon faced a Democratic Congress and a different electorate.

I saw a better parallel made than Watergate: Iran-Contra. Lots and lots of investigations, party lines digging in, no real consequences.

 

Oh for God's sake. August 5 was when the smoking-gun tape was released. Stunning that public opinion might shift dramatically in the three days after the release of that.

 

One big difference with Iran-Contra is timing. In 1987, Reagan was already a lame duck. People knew he'd be gone in a year. Trump's been in office four months.