Oh no, maybe the US will push up the tariffs on tulip bulbs and maple syrup if we don't stop!
Personally speaking, I couldn't care less if they impeach him or not. It risks making him a martyr, as improbable as that sounds. It's not as if they need to keep the pressure on to induce bizarre behaviour on Trump's part, he's more than happy to oblige all on his own. I see that today he's attacking officials in Chicago for some reason or other. It's a sure sign that politics is screwed up these days because at first blush it should be easy to find someone reasonable to win against him, but the internecine fight among the Democrats seems to be as poisoned as anything else. Why should that be?
It's ironic to listen to these "debates" as if dire consequences will emerge if one side or another is picked. We have all the food and shelter we need, there is always ample money to conduct wars, maintain weapons systems, etc., always plenty of cash for that. There's money to give Amazon tax breaks and pay off Big Corn, but a rise in the minium wage will cripple the country. Is it possible to sound more stupid. I think these "battles" are taking place at the level of symbolism, not reality. Trump is no Nazi, the Democrats are not Stalins buying up land to build the new Gulag. The rhetoric is largely moronic and utterly without meaning. Meanwhile, Amazon pays no taxes and the infrastructure rusts. The coal miners won't get their jobs back, there is no need to retract regulations, we were all doing fine with them in place. It's mostly all smoke.
I agree with all of that except the bolded part. He's not a capital "N" Nazi, but he certainly fits the mold a Mussolini-type fascist -- the whole great man thing, the belief in conspiracies against the great leader, the taste for dictatorial regimes, the attacks on a legitimately-elected Congress, the encouraging of violence against opponents. It's really all there. Before I go further, I'd like to say that I really have no problems with a conservative President, which Trump isn't. When Reagan was President, I went about my business and didn't worry too much about politics. I was exactly the same way during the Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama administrations -- they were all very different, but they seemed to be taking care of the nation's business in their own particular ways. Trump seems intent on tearing down the country, and that was right out in the open with his first Svengali, Steve Bannon, who is quite explicitly a fascist.
"Darkness is good: Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing." -- Steve Bannon.
(Bannon had more to say in Michael Wolff's anti-Trump books, and though the books are distinctly anti-Trump, Bannon hasn't denied the quotes.)
From the Wiki:
In his 2019 book Siege, Wolff wrote, “Trump was vulnerable because for 40 years he had run what increasingly seemed to resemble a semi-criminal enterprise,” then quoted Bannon as saying, “I think we can drop the 'semi' part.” Wolff wrote that Bannon predicted investigations into Trump's finances would be his political downfall, quoting Bannon as saying "This is where it isn't a witch hunt – even for the hard core, this is where he turns into just a crooked business guy, and one worth $50 million instead of $10 billion. Not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag.")
Not a Nazi with a capital N, but certainly a fascist, although in my heart of hearts, I don't think Trump is smart enough to know what fascism is. He doesn't have a theory, he just does it.
