I feel like this might happen, if only because the outcome would be exactly what this country deserves: Biden and Harris getting impeached - and conceding and resigning without much of a fight to the GOP, making Speaker Trump the President again.
It's perfect because the GOP gets what it wants like it always does, and the Democrats can only scream "coup! We've been coup'd!" so loudly because ultimately it was legal and that's the part they care about most. And then the GOP can scream about liberals being hypocrites about impeachments. And then the Dems can cry about the GOP kinda-sorta-pulling-a-coup-call-it-a-coup-we-have-to-call-it-one-and-otherwise-do-nothing.
The perfect blur of just enough deniability and confusion that nothing actually changes.
Presidential Politics and Congressional Politics are two very different animals.
I could see House Speaker Peter Thiel or House Speaker Michael Bloomberg at some point in the future. But Donald Trump won with a real (GOP-internal) popular mandate. Speakers are nominated by greasing the right number of palms among the elected.
"Speaker of the House President Donald J Trump"
I feel like this might happen, if only because the outcome would be exactly what this country deserves: Biden and Harris getting impeached - and conceding and resigning without much of a fight to the GOP, making Speaker Trump the President again.
It's perfect because the GOP gets what it wants like it always does, and the Democrats can only scream "coup! We've been coup'd!" so loudly because ultimately it was legal and that's the part they care about most. And then the GOP can scream about liberals being hypocrites about impeachments. And then the Dems can cry about the GOP kinda-sorta-pulling-a-coup-call-it-a-coup-we-have-to-call-it-one-and-otherwise-do-nothing.
The perfect blur of just enough deniability and confusion that nothing actually changes.
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The only Leninist tactic the GOP is actually using is a funky little tactic called "winning"
Yeah because the GOP is winning. Leninist tactics help you win.
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Please. PLEASE. PLEEEEEEEEEEASE.
Presidential Politics and Congressional Politics are two very different animals.
I could see House Speaker Peter Thiel or House Speaker Michael Bloomberg at some point in the future. But Donald Trump won with a real (GOP-internal) popular mandate. Speakers are nominated by greasing the right number of palms among the elected.