Democrats float 14th Amendment to bar Trump from office
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-float-14th-amendment-to-bar-trump-from-office/ar-BB1d0w0g?ocid=msedgntpIt takes two thirds of the Senate to convict Trump in his impeachment trial. Which looks too difficult to do. But only a simple majority to bar him from future office.
Should this be done?
I like the quote from Senator Ben Cardin, Democrat, Maryland.
He may already be barred.
I think this is right. Trump is already effectively barred. He has lost, I believe, too many moderates who voted from him before but won’t in the future. Seventy per cent of Republicans still support him whole heartedly, an amazingly large number. But that means, at best, getting 35 % of the vote in a general election which is not even remotely close enough for him to win.
But I am alarmed about the possibility, however remote, of electing a known fascist as president. It was bad enough electing an unknown fascist. Could enough of his former voters come back to him? Could there be a three-man race that somehow gets him the win in 2024? That possibility, I think, is why he is seriously considering forming a “Pat-riot” party.
I think this is an unnecessary precaution. It will make Trump supporters believe, even more than they do, that the game is rigged against them.
Not only do I think the 14th Amendment should not be used, I am fairly confident it won’t be. I suspect too many Democrats will come to realize that if Trump runs in 2024, the Democrats will very likely win the Presidential Election that year.
Democracy in Germany was doomed because too many Germans wanted Hitler. If too many Americans still want Trump then Democracy is doomed here as well. But I don’t think that is the case and I don’t think the 14th Amendment should be used to bar Trump form office. Let the American people learn in 2024 that Trump can never hold office again, assuming they don’t all assume that election was stolen from him as well.
And if they also learn that those who supported this “Stolen Election” story are barred as well, so much the better. I was hoping the elections on January 5 in Georgia would show that. I am pretty confident that the elections in 2022 will provide further confirmation.