01-25-2017, 09:49 AM
(01-25-2017, 02:43 AM)Dill Wrote: I think this is likely. Trump cannot govern. His budget and social policy will be Ryan's and the establishment Republicans'. There is a rush now to get as much unpopular legislation done before enough of the Trump supporting public catches on.
At a point--after months of ongoing chaos in the executive, foreign policy failures, alienation of Republicans in Congress--enough Republicans will join with Democrats to impeach or force a resignation. Pence could coast out the term, but 2020 will return the presidency to the party of the people.
It will take a generation to repair the damage. The foreign policy damage may be irreparable.
This is a totally plausible scenario, but it may have some wrinkles. Trump may be able to disguise his incompetency with some of his picks: Ben Carson, Nikki Hailey, Rick Perry - these are morons but he has put them in places where they will likely do nothing but embarrass themselves at photo ops. And, as many people on the Republican side of the aisle in the beltway seem to hate him as on the people's side. So, he may not be the fascist that guys like Ryan dream about. Fingers crossed...
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
