Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Tyrants like Trump always fall - and we can already predict how he will be dethroned

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/donald-trump-us-constitution-president

Simon Tisdall

The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubris
Sun 27 Apr 2025 01.00 EDT

Of all the tools in the tyrant-toppling toolbox, none are so potentially decisive as those supplied by Trump’s own stupidity. Most people understand how worthless a surrender monkey “peace deal” is that rewards Putin and betrays Ukraine. Does Trump seriously believe his support for mass murder in Gaza, threats to attack Iran and reckless bombing of Yemen will end the Middle East conflict and win him a Nobel peace prize?

By almost every measure, Trump’s chaotic global tariff war is hurting American consumers, damaging businesses and reducing US influence. It’s a boon to China and an attack on longtime allies and trading partners such as Britain. Trump’s big tech boosters know this to be so, as do many Republicans. But they dare not speak truth to power.

And then there’s his greed – the blatant, shameless money-grubbing that has already brought accusations of insider trading, oligarchic kleptocracy, and myriad conflicts of interest unpoliced by the 17 government oversight watchdogs Trump capriciously fired. His relatives and businesses are again pursuing foreign sweetheart deals. Corruption on this scale cannot pass unchallenged indefinitely. Avarice alone may be Trump’s undoing.

All this points to one conclusion: as a tyrant, let alone as president, Trump is actually pretty useless – and as his failures, frustrations and fantasies multiply, he will grow ever more dangerously unstable. Trump’s biggest enemy is Trump. Those who would save the US and themselves – at home and abroad – must employ all democratic means to contain, deter, defang and depose him. But right now, the best, brightest hope is that, drowning in hubris, Trump will destroy himself.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220272915

5. There are only two things, other than death, that could shorten Trump's term

1) the collapse of Social Security/Medicare

2) a tariff-induced recession so severe that Republicans in Congress get “yippy” and start having panic attacks about severe losses in the 2026 midterms. Only a collective fear of losing re-election that outweighs the fear of being primaried by a more extreme MAGA opponent, or physical threats from MAGA loyalists will push congress to act to remove Trump.

Other than possibly invading another country, no other act of hubris or incompetence will put Trump at risk of removal.