But then maybe it's not about Trump
Supposing the plan is to get rid of Trump, what happens next?
Well, maybe one of a few things.
Firstly, it's possible it all just dies down. But if 2020 has taught us anything it's that the Deep State doesn't fold a bad hand, they just up the ante and hope to bluff it out.
Second, there's the possibility Trump introduces full-on martial law and becomes a quasi-dictator. While I'm sure he has no moral compunctions about that, it's hard to see he would have the (vital) support of the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies in that endeavour. They've shown their colours throughout the last four years. However useful Trump has been, he is not an insider and he is entirely disposable.
Third, and final, Trump goes. Whether there's an impeachment or a trial or an early election or a civil war"I don't know. But it's hard to see Trump weathering this storm.
If I had to guess, I'd say the protests and pressures mount until Trump does something stupid. If he makes any Yanukovych-style attempts at appeasement (he probably won't), they will be ignored or minimised or the goalposts will be moved (we already saw that, when the arrest of Derek Chauvin went almost totally unnoticed).
If soldiers fire on civilians - whether Trump orders it or not, or whether mercenaries frame the army (like in Ukraine) - that will be it. The military will resign
From there could emerge an appointed "temporary" President, a middle-of-the-road type with support from both parties, whose job is to "unify the country" and "heal the divides".
The emergence of a totally unelected President will, of course, be called something like "a triumph of the democratic spirit" in The Guardian.
The riots will be blamed for a constructed "second wave" of Covid19. Just in time for one of the new POTUS' first announcements to be that "America will start taking Covid19 seriously". Stronger lockdown rules, mandatory track-and-trace"the full Monty.
This will naturally earn him/her good-boy points all across the mainstream media, with the (totally accidental) bonus that anyone who dares protest the coup will be breaking the law, being selfish and risking lives (and probably a racist).
This is all just my supposition. I could be wrong, I hope I'm wrong. But I can see it heading in that direction. And the idea should worry everyone. Not out of any latent concern for Donald Trump, obviously. Just for the stability of the world. Coups or impeachments or other non-democratic power-changes are not good. They don't end well.
They don't end well for the leaders being removed, who almost universally end up exiled or hanged or poisoned or shot. Sometimes worse.
More importantly, they don't end well for the ordinary people, who always suffer when the Deep State turns society on its head.
And, in this instance, it may not end well for the world, which suddenly has a nuclear-armed superpower in a severe state of flux to worry about.
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