Whether he dies, whether he’s actually impeached and whether he does not try to install a third term. What should, pray hoping, a sane and reasonable president of the united states do when they’re sworn in?
I think the president should take an entire year, bandaging, repairing and strengthening all and any ties with allies they’ll somehow have remaining.
I was going to about say codify laws for them not to be messed with, but even codified laws can still be messed with. There must be a new way to instill laws that not even Congress can touch and fuck with. That no President after this one can touch. That no Supreme Court of any kind can touch.
Because what good will codifying something do if it’s going to be overturned? We’ve witnessed that a few times. They would have to be part of the constitution at this point.
Obviously the next president that would-be, would have to spend another year and a half, rolling back, making their own executive orders to undo what shitstain has done.
I just feel like that, we need to stop the see-sawing actions of how politics are done in America. We need a president that means business. But, it appears to me that kind of president is all but imaginary.
You’re asking the wrong questions. The institutions which created the conditions for what we are seeing now will not be able to un-create those conditions without being fundamentally altered. The reality we Americans need to internalize is that “no institutional actor will be saving us”. If we make it through the next several years without a significant, socially disruptive rupture, we will not have been saved. We will have mearly postponed it. If Democrats take power in the house, senate, and presidency, and try to recreate the pre-Trump political period, they will create a fallow field in which a less incompetent analog of Trump will grow.
The only way this stops is if Americans reject the things which have made it possible to occur, for instance, the expansiveness of the military, the legal imperviousness of the president, the inaction of the legislature, the “apoliticality” of the supreme court, the expansion of the surveillance and security apparati of the state, militarization of police forces, ect (by no means exhaustive). The people in power will not voluntarily give up power to allow this to happen.
Much of what we’re seeing now has happened before, and Americans have never rejected it before. From this I can only assume it will take a lot more deterioration before we see it end.