The country has always had an enviable balance to its government. Checks and balances. The USA is not in danger of a constitutional crisis because the Vice President will provisionally carry out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch. The country knows it has been betrayed. There were great hopes for the Trump presidency by many. I was not one of them, but, it was out there. Today, the country is ready for Trump to leave.
I might add, this is not new. Very early on and it is on this blog, that Vice President Pence was more a President of the Senate than the Vice President to the President. Since Pence was discovered to be intervening to "protect the country" he has been harassed by Trump to be a yes man and literally mimic his habits. Pence never disagreed with Trump in public after that.
This doesn't surprise me. This is an ongoing problem. The impeachment of a president and/or the disqualifying of a president as the 25th Amendment is orderly. There is process, procedure, dignity and policy in bringing a dangerous person to examination to remove him/her from office. I don't know where everyone gets this idea any actions against Trump would cause a constitutional crisis. It won't. There will be plenty of engagement by the people regarding such policy being instituted, but, that is hardly a constitutional crisis.
If enough people within the Executive Branch believes the country is in danger, they need move forward.
September 5, 2018
President Trump (click here) is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.
The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations....
...This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.
Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.
The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.
