Woke up this morning with the fantasy that Xi would arrest Trump on behalf of humanity or say he had a medical emergency and stick him in a room somewhere. Maybe then use him as leverage against Vance, the immediate acting president, and the Republicans in Congress, demanding we stop fucking around and follow our own laws or declare ourselves an officially authoritarian state and be done with it.
What would those Republicans do?
Say please keep him for a bit and make sure he's okay he's been a bit off lately? Then what? Try to institute some kind of intelligible interim government? I don't think so. They would be jockeying for power, trying to get pardons from Vance, protecting their fortunes any way they could, and trying to guarantee their personal hegemony forever. At least the pretense, that we aren't already completely fucked, would be over.
That's how far gone we are. The world would be so relieved if Trump were somehow stopped. Like Democrats, but much more understandably, they've never been able to comprehend this block of fundamentalist religious sociopaths we have. But behold these scumbags in Alabama and other states capitalizing on our rogue, politicized Supreme Court's latest farcical voting rights ruling.
Just a thought experiment, of course, but it leads me to believe Democrats as a party are incapable of dealing with this. They can't mount a coherent, effective attack on an administration that's nothing but a rolling coup or even criticize it in a way that sticks. My conclusion? The only way we get out of this is charismatic leadership. Anybody. A fucking Martian would be fine. And I see absolutely no one.
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