When the political costs to the GOP is greater being associated with Trump’s american carnage than the cost of pissing off Trump’s rapid base, we will see either impeachment proceedings or a way to invoke the 25th amendment. At this point we can finally say goodbye to our national nightmare.
However, at that point, the Democrats better have ice in their stomachs. When the GOP introduces a way to remove a GOP president, they are in a position where they are desperate to distance themselves from Trump. We should not let them off the hook that easy. We should never let them just dump Trump and let Pence (or in a case of a double impeachment, Ryan) take over with no consequences. When the republicans become this desperate we need to extract the maximum amount of concessions from them. Otherwise the GOP with get away with and rewarded for all their shenanigans like voter suppression, gerrymandering, obstructions etc. If we can remain calm, we could make the GOP either try to swim with the anchor that Trump will become or cave in to us.
What concessions should we demand? I’d like to hear your reasonable ones as well as far fetched ones. Here are some dream ones I could see that Democrats should demand before agreeing to impeachment:
impeachment of SCJ “fascism forever” Grouchy, and replaced with Garland (could be done after the new president take place)
make enough GOP representatives do a temporary swap of caucusing to the Democratic side to make Pelosi the majority leader before agreeing to a double impeachment and make her president. After that, they can swap back.
Find a way to abolish the EC
So come on, if the democrats were willing to play chicken with the GOP, how much blood would yo like them to draw from the GOP. I think Trump will be so disastrous that the democrats should begin to think like Blagojevich in one of his famous quotes: “I've got this thing and it's f*cking golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for f*ckin' nothing.”