Personally, I believe that the plodding, implacable Robert Mueller, white knight of the Deep State, will flush the Golden Golem of Greatness out of office, probably on some sort of money-laundering rap having nothing to do with \u201cRussian meddling.\u201d Anderson Cooper will have a multiple orgasm. Rachel Maddow will don a yellow hard-hat and chain-saw a scale model of Mar-a-Lago to the glee of her worshippers. The #Resistance will dance in the streets. And then what?<\/p>\n
I doubt that Mr. Trump will go gracefully. Rather he\u2019ll dig in and fight even if it means fomenting a constitutional crisis. He\u2019ll challenge Mr. Mueller on veering into matters unrelated to alleged Russian pranks in the 2016 election. He may well attempt the self-pardoning gambit. He will have a lot of support out in the Deplorable gloaming. But, at some point, I expect a bipartisan consensus to emerge in Congress that the guy has got to go. He\u2019s making it impossible to conduct even the routines of bribery and domestic collusion that Washington exists for. Nobody is getting paid \u2014 at least not the bonuses they\u2019re accustomed to seeing.<\/p>\n
The 25th<\/sup>\u00a0amendment is still the best tool for the job. Unlike impeachment, it doesn\u2019t require much in the way of standards of evidence or any Mickey Mouse niceties of due process. It doesn\u2019t take months and months of tiresome legal gamesmanship, no committees or reports. You just get a small number of cabinet members and congressional leaders to agree that the President is \u201cunfit\u201d \u2014 which can mean anything, really \u2014 and he\u2019s chopped. General Kelly may be enlisted to pry Mr. Trump\u2019s smallish fingers from the doorjamb and shove him into the waiting limo in the porte coch\u00e8re for the long sad ride up the Jersey Turnpike.<\/p>\n Enter Mike Pence, slated to be a kind of combination…<\/p>\n