I was contemplating when President Trump is likely to resign, and it occurred to me that if the House and Senate are overwhelmed by a blue wave this November, President Trump may be visited by Congressional GOP leaders sometime in late November to early January ’27, who’ll tell him it’s time to leave office, before the next Congress convenes and opens impeachment proceedings against Trump for incompetence and waging an illegal war.
Trump will yell, but if the GOP‘s fourth-rater ensemble is defeated as I suspect it’ll be defeated, he’ll be facing a very hostile Congress and a GOP which had been forced to put their trust in Trump and, for their troubles, been so utterly defeated that only the safest of seats will remain in their hands. Amid the screaming of cheating and calls for martial law and all the garbage that comes from chronic losers will be folks who’ll put country over party.
Yes, this is all overly-optimistic, and assumes the Democrats will recognize their own deficiencies and do something about them. So far, I understand DNC chair Ken Martin has refused to do anything responsible in the area of postmortems, but he still has time to retract those decisions, open the debates, and maybe expel some incompetent zealots practiced in the art of performative morality. If not, I can still hope new parties, or at least factions, centered around folks like Platner and Gallego, will appear and come to the fore, replacing the tired old Parties that have forgotten how liberal democracies operate.
