The Trump Nightmare: How It Ends

[DonViejo]

A scenario that becomes more likely by the day

ROBERT KUTTNER SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I don’t have a crystal ball, but I find the following scenario increasingly plausible. Let me begin by giving away the punch-line: When Robert Mueller’s report comes out, the Republican leadership will quickly huddle, and tell Trump that he needs to resign or face impeachment.

Why is this prediction other than wishful thinking? For starters, Trump could not do a better job of alienating the Republicans in Congress, whom he needs to save his bacon, if it were his deliberate plan.

He insults Mitch McConnell personally. Then he makes separate deals with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, first on the debt extension, then on the Dreamers, and next quite likely on taxes, and perhaps on climate change. The far-right base is enraged at Trump as never before. Breitbart has become an anti-Trump screed.

Congressional Republicans never liked Trump, and the feeling was reciprocal—just ask Little Marco or Lyin’ Ted. But Trump and the Republicans figured they could use each other. That didn’t work out so well. Not much remains of the marriage.

Despite the Republican majority in both houses of Congress, the GOP is so badly split that they can’t manage to deliver either their own priorities or Trump’s. Obamacare lives. The Dreamers are likely to avoid deportation. Trump is so desperate to get something that he can call tax reform that he could well make a deal with Schumer and Pelosi that avoids cutting taxes on the rich.

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[Girard442]

1. What about Putin?

If it's true that Putin played a major role in putting Trump in the White House, it wouldn't be much of a leap to imagine him playing a major role in keeping Trump in the White House. Seems to me, President Loose Cannon is far too valuable an asset to just let walk away.

Maybe a 9/11-scale terrorist attack? Certainly turned Dubya "presidential".

[spanone]

2. i suspect the republican leadership will attack Mueller and his findings and blame it on Clinton

they will NEVER shoot one of their own

[world wide wally]

3. The GOP will do whatever the Koch Bros tell them to do just like thwy are with ramming this stupid

repeal of Obamcare through

[jimlup]

4. By the Old Gods and the New

I sincerely hope so!

[inwiththenew]

5. The 800 pound gorilla in the room is the Republican base who still loves Orange Messiah

The Republicans won't move on Trump. They just won't. They'd be tarred and feather by the base who they need to stay in office and none of them have the courage to do what's right at the cost of their political career.

This is going to have to come with a big win in 2018 and then the fun can start in 2019 once sworn in.