Your Bonus Tuesday Trump Dump

Too much news. Here we go…

  • David Remnick summarizes where we are with the new revelations about James Comey's memo and Trump's admissions of sharing info with Russia.  Not good for Mr. Trump.
  • Jonathan Chait says that a few days ago, it was unthinkable that Republicans in Congress would ever allow investigations of Trump to get to the point where impeachment might become likely. Now, he says, it's becoming thinkable.
  • Ross Douthat believes that it's time to invoke the 25th Amendment. That's the one where a majority of the president's cabinet declares the president unfit to serve and he or she is asked to step down…and if he or she won't, Congress can remove said unfit person by a 2/3 majority. This will never happen but it's amazing that a Conservative pundit is calling for such a thing.
  • Dylan Matthews finds a helluva lot of similarities between Trump's actions and the actions that led to Richard Nixon having to resign lest he be impeached.  At least Nixon's defenders didn't pull the "He didn't know the laws" defense.

My feeling about impeaching Trump is that it will spare us from the worry that in order to divert attention from his problems or prove some point about how tough he is, he's going to do something really, really stupid, possibly involving nuclear weapons. If not for concerns like that, I might not care. I don't see President Pence as much better for this country.