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(24,486 posts)The hard part is conviction which requires 67 votes and we would need 20 Republicans to vote to convict Trump and that's just not going to happen.
We had our chance last November to stop Trump, but too many of us (Democrats, the Left, those who really love America, what it has come to be and represent in the world) were complacent, not vigilant to the true dangers of Trump and Musk, and we were overconfident as well that Harris would win because we believed that his core support only came from his maga cult. I believe there was cheating as well, not widespread but concentrated in the swing states but enough to swing the election to Trump who at the end of the campaign didn't seem like someone trying to win but was confident that the fix was in.
So we had our chance to be rid of Trump in '24 and it's highly, highly unlikely to happen any other way now with either impeachment and conviction or by use of the 25th Amendment (which is the reason that Trump picked the cabinet he did).