Perhaps a way to get rid of Trump...

Part I 

A Proposal 

There is no time to hesitate in beginning a national discussion about the exiting of Trump. He’s inflicted damage with global impact. American security is suffering strategically and domestically. He threatens a global economic meltdown that could quickly throw us all into a maelstrom of panic and desperation. 

 

Now is the time for analysts, commentators, journalists, public officials and statesmen to begin examining means to wrest him from power. It is time for the former US Presidents to engage.

 

The chaos he’s unleashed is building like a chain reaction, and threatens to tip into something not even his own delusional sense of self can begin to manage. 

 

Long before the American Republic existed John Milton wrote “It is lawful and hath been through all ages for anyone who have the power to call account of a tyrant or wicked king and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.”  

 

Getting rid of tyrants is a story as old as social organization.

 

Some may argue this is merely politics, that elected presidents are entitled to put their programs before the public. There is an important context; all presidents work for us, and their policies must work for us. We, the employer and our common wellbeing is priority one, not his or her desires, or revenges, or in this case the delusions of an unqualified and flawed man possessed of extraordinary blithe ignorance.  

 

If he was credible I would argue he should be given a chance. There has never been a less qualified person in the office. A good record would be a leverage for him, but he was a failure, twice impeached, refused to acknowledge defeat, plotted to overturn the election results, stole sensitive documents and used them to his business advantage, and has since been convicted on multiple counts of fraud. He likely would have been convicted of other federal and state crimes had he not run for election, his ploy to avoid trials. I know you know this, but I say it to disabuse ourself there is anything near normal going on.

 

Common sense alone should have prevented his election. Now that he’s on the revenge war path, and there are no sane forces to reign in his malignant nature, we’ve already seen historic damage. It’s time to bring him down.

 

One of history’s guessing games has been the dark calculus of how many millions of lives would have been saved if Adolph Hitler has been deposed or assassinated when it was clear he was a mad man, out of control, a narcissist bent on forcing the world to live his evil delusions and revenge.

 

What I suggest may sound preposterous, but we live in a time of preposterous reality.  George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and their former senior counsels for security, intelligence and diplomacy as well as their senior uniformed officers should gather in a closed summit. Out of the spotlight these former most powerful men in the world need to have a serious heart to heart. It could be the most important gathering of American patriots since the founding. There is no nice option forward, nothing we’ve experienced or tested, no play book guideline. But a play has to be made.

 

We’ve already seen Jamie Diamond from banking and finance and other financial analysts and economists begin to speculate what kind of horror could be ahead.  All of this folks in just a couple of months.

 

This financial and banking sector needs to speak to Republican Senate and House leadership and lay the stinking mess right at their door. This MAGA Republican gang have demonstrated their cowardice and ready willingness to be obsequious. They’ve permitted an idiot to have his delusional way. If, and it’s worth a try, if the likes of Mr. Diamond and friends can explain that whatever economic or security catastrophe may come, will be laid at their feet, these quislings might realize Trump has no power if they do not enable him. Thus far they have abrogated legislative influence in the matter of checks and balance. 

 

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. Benjamin Franklin

 

As for the true statesmen and women, former Presidents and their senior counsel and advisors, the options begin to enumerate when they begin to talk. 

 

Is there a nice way for former Presidents to convince a sitting lunatic to leave the throne. We are in new territory here. We know that 28 years of Oval Office leadership is a profile of experience and knowledge we can trust. Let them work on it.

 

“It is not unjust that the king be deposed or have his power restricted by the multitude if, becoming a tyrant, he abused the royal power.” Thomas Aquinas.

 

 

 

Part II   MAKING THE CASE

A Reprise

 

 

We the citizens of the US have personally lost $billions. Everyone with a pension or retirement fund that draws wealth from the market, or investments or real estate, or any fungible commodity or exchange. The wealth loss is historic. It didn't need to occur. It was triggered. 

THE OUTRAGEOUS SUMMARY

We’ve attacked enemies and made alliances with butchers. The President is a Russian patsy. (That should be an impossible sentence to publish.) He has embarrassed the US and diminished our status. We are no longer trusted.  

His tariff trade war is a foolish notion, improbable. On the longest of shots and if it were to work it would take decades. But service industry jobs pay more than what factory workers make abroad. New manufacturing will be people light, and mostly automated. His rationale: "It will make us wealthy." Who is the "us?" the Oligarchs? Already the wealthiest nation what good has that done for working Americans, to housing prices, for the homeless? His antiquated idea is a dud.

Donald Trump is not an intelligent man nor a student of history. His only business success was a role he played on TV. He considers everything is "deal making" missing the more complex nature of international stability, diplomacy and keeping the peace. 

The painful truth America, our President is not a genius onto something great, he is simply a blustering moron who has become a clear and present danger not only to the US but to the world. 

 

He threatens to take Greenland. He betrays allies, weakens strategic alliances born out of world history he never studied.  

He’s allowed the agencies that have protected us, medicine, food and drink, water and air to be gutted. We live with less safety and assurance. 

He’s let his DOGE Bro cut government services and then cherry pick those that his companies will benefit from. 

Trump is  too much of a threat, too reckless and too corrupt to be permitted to remain in power. 

Millions of Americans including military veterans think he is a traitor. 

How many warning signs can we ignore before signing our own death warrant?

 

Many of the poor souls who believed his lies or could not see through him, or did not listen to those who knew him best, are now among those who are the first to begin to suffer; job losses, loss of benefits,  the breaking of what had been the world’s best economy. It will get worse.

 

“This tyrant whose sole name blisters our tongue, was once thought honest.”

William Shakespeare

WHO IS HIS MAJORITY? 

Who put him in office? His voters were the least educated, people who felt left out, over looked, those who admire his arrogance, personality and are motivated by the “culture war.” 

They are consumers of right wing media and social media. 

 

As a general rule they are not a sentiment that should guide America's course in trying to fulfill its aspirational goals or to confront its problems and sins. 

Revenge is not a navigating star, ignorance is not a virtue. Neither can ignorance be an excuse. 

One need not think too long about this reality; Trump freed the insurrectionists and police killers, but cracks down on college free speech, threatens law firms and Universities in a kind of extortion and is surrounded by lightweights like the national security cowboy text party and pole dancers or looney’s like Laura Loomer and Stephen Miller.  Already they’ve shredded the idea of due process, sending wrong people to El Salvador’s dark hole prison where people disappear. Who else might they come for? They've fired thousands of important workers, arbitrarily to our detriment.

REVENGES AND MALICE 

It is a knife to the heart that for the first time America has not been able to come to the assistance of those most in need of food, shelter, medicine, and assistance after disaster or the continued evil of war. Shame on us! In the past Americans flooded the zone with relief when humans were suffering. We sent only three relief experts into the quake zone and Trump fired them while they were there. His Rasputin, Elon the strange, said “empathy is a weakness.” Elon, that is dead wrong! That idea is evil. And that attitude is steering our ship of state into a turbulence of Trump and the unelected Musk’s own making.

 

It's past time for Donald Trump. 

 

It felt good for Millions of American citizens and more around the world to hit the streets and demonstrate against this tyrant fool, but that’s not going to knock him off the throne.

So Americans need to start thinking and talking about the need and means to separate Trump from power. Talk and foment and steal the spotlight from his own control of media. Social media, street protests, pushing a news agenda, conversations, wherever and however to raise the issue of deposing a tyrant.  

He is malignant and has created a toxic whirlwind. It is time for the storm to take him. Time to end the chaos. It is time to try to make the world more stable, safe, secure. Don’t you miss the security and value of 100 days ago. Dare you permit a thought of what 3 more years of Trump might do? It’s time to make him go away. Time to build a consensus. 

See you down the trail.