The guessing game now is how soon Trump will be impeached. The other guess is which party will spearhead the impeachment effort. If the GOP were smart, it would see that Trump is going to be nothing but trouble for it. But the GOP is not smart. Yes, soon enough the party will tire of Trump’s wild promises of undeliverables like health insurance for everyone, wonderful insurance at little cost. His breaking up Europe and feeding it to Russia probably will lose its appeal for the GOP relatively quickly, too. As will Trump’s ongoing ability to alienate one segment of the public after another.

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And even though President Pence would have enough working digits to sign all of the GOP reactionary legislation into law without all the Trump drama, it won’t be the GOP that tries to impeach Trump. Why not? Because the party has already shown its moral and tactical inability to stand up to him in any way whatsoever. Republicans are his miniature lap-elephants now.

Unfortunately, it won’t be the Democrats who successfully lead the move to impeach Trump either. They also have shown no ability to stop him. Instead of unifying everyone to the left of Trump to stand up to the virus that has gotten into the system, Democrats would rather continue with their argument as to who a real progressive is, and let Trump pick them off one at a time, which he will be more than happy to do.

So no one will lead a successful impeachment of Trump, although somebody had better, and quickly. Because Trump’s plan of action is to continue solidifying his power, through selective intimidation and reward of corporate and government power centers. And the longer that goes on, the more the damage he will do, and the messier his removal, when it finally comes to that, will be.