Red
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between you and Red, I doubt there is anyone in here who is more consumed by the hope that the last election can be just overturned by some establishment political hacks who really don't get it that people voted against the way things were.
I believe you would be very hard pressed to find a single comment by me in any of the Trump-themed threads in which I have said I believe Trump will be impeached. It takes a 2/3 majority in the Senate, after all, and even if the Democrats won the House and squeaked out a majority in the Senate, that would be hard to do.
On the other hand, I pretty much am disgusted by the guy for reasons very similar to those Bulletproof had expressed. And I'm dismayed by the actions of his henchmen in the EPA, the Interior, Education, and the State Department. I'm dismayed by the anti-science mind set of Trump and several of his cabinet appointments. Dismayed that while the rest of the world seems at least somewhat prepared to face global problems in a cooperative spirit, and with respect for Science, Trump seems intent on overturning any and all regulations of his predecessor, for the sake of just acting spiteful toward the man he still considers to have been born in Kenya.
It stuns me that Trump treats Science as a political conspiracy rather then as a path to knowledge. I'm really not keen on his effort to return to the Middle Ages. In Trump world, conspiracy theory trumps science. He did not invent that mind set, but he's leading it. I simply respect science over conspiracy theory and irrational thought. Not Scientism, mind you, not science as religion, but science as a method and pathway to knowledge. We have never had such an anti-science President. In the 21st century.
As far as removal, removing him in a straight jacket would seem more appropriate then any other method. But I'll take the ballot box in 2020, barring any findings by Mueller that would at least make impeachment proceedings the next step. But I think that would be one tough hill to climb. In 1973-4, the Republicans were able and willing to put country above party. That is very, very unlikely to be the case anytime soon where the current GOP is concerned....
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