Trump, Departing

THIS TIME OF YEAR folks're making their predictions for twenty twenty six, along with New Year's resolutions and wish lists, and proclamations of good intent regarding eliminating or reversing long held hard to break personal habits. Inevitably, as is well known,most of this comes crumbling down within a couple of weeks or a few days after teh first day of the year. Thos daly sunrise visits to the fitness center become less and less frequent and by mid February, another ten dollar a month membership goes unused, just as the fitness center owners intend and understand. The large majority of Americans who comprise the anti-Trump movement often express their prediction or desire that President Trump either die, resign,or be impeached and removed, understandably. Impeachmwnt seems the msot likely, with a new and probably Democrat controlled House of Representatives likely to take office a year from now. The Senate, unless the Democrats take control of it, will almost certainly laugh the impeachment charges out of court, as the Trump sycophants did twice before. If Trump haters would take the time to think past their immediate emotions, and to look at the "big picture" they would surely realize, at length, that this scenarion, any scenario by which trump does not complete his presidential term is undesierable, for them. In the first place, although anti-Trumpers for thesot part have doubtless failed to realize this, the first thing that would happen in the event of Trump's death or fored resignation or removal would be that he instantly becomes a martyr among his MAGA cult. There would issue forth from the MAGA mob an avalanche of wailing, gnashing of teeth, and venomous hatred of all liberals and non Trump supporters everywhere. Since Trump supporters tend to be conspiracy theorists, all manner of wisted, deranged accusations would doubtless be hurled against those left wing Democrats which Trump has alternately called "vermin" and scum." Hillary Clinton, as well as Obama dn Biden, would have to hire extra security, which I am told they already do, due to the level of vitriolic hatred the Prevaricator-in-Chief constatnly gins up within his angry minions. There might even be an actual civil war, Trump's MAGA mob, bolstered by white supremacist groups armed to the teeth, roaming the city streets of freedom's land like goons or National Guard, looking to eradicate the libs. Do those of us who despide and revile Trump really want him out of office before 2029? We think we do. But when we think more carefully about the Republican party, wearing and carrying the banner of the martyred Trump like armor, uniting behind the Trump-like J.D. Vance and entering the 2028 election cycle with the fervor of a sacred cause, we think twice. They would be looking to use Trump's memory to keep Vance and the Trump agenda in office fora full eight years, eight more years of Trumpism, an intolerable thought. It is in teh best interests of the great moral majority of Americans who want Trump gone to endure him the rest of his term, while wroking to render him impotent politically, through lack of public support, which continues to erode. ForTrump to leave office prematurely would only strengthen the Trump movement. As it now stands, Trump'sinsane policies are gradually, all to slowly but steadily, eroding his support, as MAGA folk, one by one, give it up. Trump's evident strategy is to regain his popularity by involving the United States in a noble crusade of a foreign war. That si a desperate strategy, directly opposed to Trump's stated agenda of peace. For Trump to champion himself as the architect of peace in conflists all over the world, while involving his own country in such wars,will be a fascinating balancing act for the don of dception. But if anybody call pull it off, he can.