So let’s say that tomorrow Trump is indicted, impeached, frog-marched out of the White House, and his entire team including Pence and Ryan are in prison and Orrin Hatch is president.
Let’s say this happens (not a quarter of it is going to happen) and we all watch it on TV.
Then what? I mean it, then what? Like the next day what happens? We pop the champagne and assume it’s all over?
I used to worry if Trump lost Roger Stone would foment violence. instead, Trump won & Roger Stone is fomenting violence. https://t.co/wSq3G3xfaP
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 16, 2017
I think a lot of my fellow pale-faced liberal types are underthinking the amount of violence people of color, young people, and women are already facing because of Trump, and that’s after a VICTORY. Their whole angry worldview was validated in a national election and it’s just made them MORE angry. I didn’t think they could get more angry but they are.
These are the people arming and prepping themselves for the apocalypse, who bought an extra AR-15 just to piss those libtards off and have been stockpiling ammo since the days of that draft-dodger Bill Clinton. We all had a good time clowning on Meal Team Six back when they seized a frickin’ bird sanctuary, but put one of those assholes in a crowded room and he could mow down a movement.
This speech is important for a variety of reasons: 1) Stone divulged the militants’ plan to have 300-500 men w guns go to the fed courthouse
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) July 16, 2017
Ninety percent of Trump supporters? If he’s thrown out of office they’ll be fine as long as whatever comes after him immediately gives them jobs. They’ll go to work and they’ll have less time to be pissed off. I don’t have an answer for that other 10 percent but I think we’re downplaying the threat they represent to people already feeling marginalized and targeted.
So if I seem less openly enthusiastic about the idea of impeachment or criminal proceedings against the Trump Syndicate, it isn’t because I think they’re innocent of anything. It’s because even if they’re found guilty, they won’t suffer a fraction as much as those with so much more to lose already.
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You make a good point, Allison. So what’s your alternative to impeaching Trump? Should we avoid taking necessary action against him for fear of how his most extreme supporters might react? Yes, the threat of domestic terrorism is real, but so is the threat of Trump, and we’e got to deal with them both.