TRUMP IS A MADMAN AND WE SERIOUSLY NEED TO GET RID OF HIM

We are in year two of the Trump presidency, and we keep telling ourselves every day that it can't get any worse, and it does.

This is a basic truth: Donald Trump is a madman. And while he tweet-rants and lies and reverses himself by the hour, and fires his cabinet members one-by-one, ad kisses Putin's ass...the evildoers he has put in charge of government are disassembling government and giving away everything of value to their corporate masters. And the citizens of America, those who are not in the Trump camp, the GOP leadership or the corporate masters of them all, are being ignored, abandoned and made less well-off than ever.

This is serious. Seasoned politicians, public servants, journalists and others are openly saying that American democracy is at serious risk, perhaps as never before. This is serious; seriously.

And where is Congress? The GOP majority in Congress is silent; they have nothing to say about their president. They are complicit in the destruction of American democracy, and they have to know it. With what devil did the GOP make a pact? How can they not act to at least limit the damage being done by their president and his appointees? This is outrageous!

We are all counting on the Mueller investigation to come up with the smoking gun, the silver bullet that will end Trump's presidency. It might. Let's hope.

But in the meantime, it is up to the Democratic Party and the millions of good people of America to set into motion a plan to push the madman out of office; we need a political coup. Soon.

Two avenues exist for this political coup, and I am not expert enough to know if and how; impeachment and invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. In either of these, the Vice President would become President, and the prospect of a President Pence is also frightening; however, it could not possibly be worse than a President Trump (could it?).

We tell ourselves that the only course of action is to get a democratic majority in Congress in the 2018 mid-term elections. It could happen, especially if Democrats - including the far left and progressives - are smart, not stupid like they were in 2016.

But seriously, Trump is a madman, we need to get him out of the White House.

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