Let\u2019s suppose that the economy continues to unravel and the misery index spikes.\u00a0 Now maybe the masterminds, among the powers that be, decide that letting Trump clean up the mess would actually be smarter than owning it.\u00a0 So, they unfortify democracy temporarily in Philadelphia and Detroit and, miracle of miracles, Trump wins.<\/p>\n
Then what?<\/p>\n
Of course, for a few months the dirt people will be dancing in the streets.\u00a0 The mockery of Biden and all of the Democrats will be unrelenting.\u00a0 And all kinds of brave talk will be heard about \u201cdraining the swamp\u201d and \u201ccleaning out the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n
And then what?<\/p>\n
Truth be told, maybe a whole lot of nothing.\u00a0 Trump has said he intends to fire all of the disloyal FBI and Justice Department officials who wrecked his presidency.\u00a0 In order to do any of that he will need a filibuster-proof senate majority.\u00a0 And even then, the lower courts will fight him tooth and nail and we would probably see nefarious action by the intelligence agencies and the Justice Department to attack Trump\u2019s lieutenants and even himself.<\/p>\n
And even if he has the Congress to pass these measures, he will be juggling restoring the country to solvency along with this delousing program.\u00a0 And because fixing the economy is a very difficult job, he has to get all this done in two years.\u00a0 If he doesn\u2019t, he\u2019ll surely lose the Congress in the mid-terms.\u00a0 And nothing of note will happen after that.\u00a0 So, if Trump is elected, he must hit the ground running and do all of his hatchet work right from day one.<\/p>\n
As daunting as that sounds it\u2019s also kind of bracing.\u00a0 To me it sounds like he has no choice but to go to the nuclear option from the git go.\u00a0 It would be like a right-wing New Deal or Great Society sized effort.\u00a0 And since this is a one-shot deal, they could do things that haven\u2019t been contemplated in decades.\u00a0 They could cancel all kinds of defense appropriations for useless weapons systems and literally and not figuratively close down whole agencies.\u00a0 How many times have we heard about closing down the Education Department or the FBI and absolutely nothing has come of it.\u00a0 But if the will were there then it could be done for a short window of time.\u00a0 And for Trump eliminating the FBI and firing most of the Justice Department is almost a case of self-defense.\u00a0 Because if they\u2019re still in charge when he finishes his term, they will imprison him for the rest of his life and go after everyone in his sphere of friends.<\/p>\n
You notice that all of this is built on a pile of ifs.\u00a0 The biggest one is that the people running the country decide that it\u2019s time for the Republicans to clean up the Democrats\u2019 mess.\u00a0 And it also assumes a Republican Congress wouldn\u2019t just stab Trump in the back again as soon as he was in the White House.\u00a0 Based on past performance that is the likeliest case.\u00a0 But who knows?\u00a0 Mitch McConnell might drop dead and if the economy continues to go south there might come a point where even the degenerates who inhabit congress might be willing to play ball with Trump just to save their own hides from the mob.\u00a0 After all, we\u2019re getting closer and closer to French Revolution territory every single day that Joe Biden drives this country off a cliff.\u00a0 If the timing is just right, we might see something real happen in November.<\/p>\n
Or maybe we\u2019ll see nothing at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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