Removing Trump from ballots isn’t going to solve anything, because not every state is going to follow the lead of Maine and Colorado. Such efforts may only end up amounting to a form of public protest that doesn’t really change anything. Just more evidence of the partisan divide.
This potential electoral mess must be on a lot of peoples’ minds already. Without unanimity, or even with it, nothing will be solved, and the anger index might be ratcheted all the way up to Civil War.
I understand the premise, the why of such a removal attempt—because there is a Constitutional provision for removing bad actors, even if it originates post-1865—but we’re in too deep for any such righteous move to actually mean anything. One can envision red states ignoring a SCOTUS ruling that doesn’t go in their favor, and maybe even removing Democrats from ballots, just because.
So, as much as it sounds like the right thing to do, and as much as we’re way past tired of his ugly mug, it’s not going to solve the problem that is Donald Trump. Our only hope is a pre-election guilty verdict in one of the indictments (dream on…), or denying him in November.
Saying that last part out loud is beyond depressing, because there is no reason for his inclusion in any conversation about electability or fitness for the job. He’s horrible, and a lot of people on both sides of the aisle know he’s horrible. But that has never mattered.
This is feeling like one of those times when we describe the slow-motion inevitability of a car crash—we could see it coming but were helpless to change the outcome.
It can’t unfold that way.
(But it did.)
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