{"id":9577,"date":"2026-04-09T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:59:11","slug":"impeach-25th-amendment-yes-and-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=9577","title":{"rendered":"Impeach? 25th Amendment? Yes and No."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Larson, along with other Democrats, has filed articles of impeachment against the genius<\/a>. I don\u2019t expect them to go anywhere, but perhaps more important is that Larson and others have demanded that the 25th Amendment be invoked to remove Demented Don from office. In doing so they are explicitly, though perhaps not explicitly enough, referring to his deteriorating mental state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Larson also called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked against Trump. \u201cHe’s becoming more unstable by the day,\u201d Larson said. \u201cHe is unfit to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Again, I don\u2019t expect anything concrete to come of it, and I\u2019m not sure that I even want something to come of it. More on that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve written often enough on this blog about the unbelievable inability of Democrats to speak with one voice. The cited article states that there are 80 Congressional Democrats that have called for invoking the 25th Amendment. It\u2019s time for those Democrats and others to start openly calling out Trump\u2019s dementia and the failure of the media to adequately cover it. Start calling him names. They can have \u201cDemented Don\u201d for free (see above). If the Democrats continue to pound on the undoubted fact of his dementia the press, other than Fox, will have no choice but to cover it. As more and more people, particularly the \u201clow information\u201d voters, accept the fact that he is in fact in the grips of dementia, the more likely they\u2019ll be to vote against Congressional Republicans who will continue to do nothing about it. Assuming a somewhat fair election that will assure a solid Democratic majority in the next Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that being said, as I indicated above, I don\u2019t really want Congressional Republicans to invoke the 25th Amendment before the next election. First, doing so might mollify some of those \u201clow information\u201d voters. It would also achieve nothing immediately so far as preventing the rise of fascism in this country. JD Vance is a full fledged fascist, who is quite a bit smarter than Trump. If he\u2019s installed before the next election it would likely mean fewer Democrats elected in the fall, not just because of the idiotic \u201clow information\u201d voters feeling reassured, but because he\u2019d probably be better at organizing a steal. If the 25th Amendment is invoked the best time would be after the upcoming election. If Vance became president he\u2019d do as much harm as Trump would have done, but he doesn\u2019t have Trump\u2019s ability to con large numbers of voters into voting against their interest, so he\u2019d be unlikely to win the election in 2028. Assuming, again, that it\u2019s not stolen. That being said, the country would probably be better off if Demented Don \u201cserved\u201d out his term, thereby driving even more voters into the Democratic fold in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Larson, along with other Democrats, has filed articles of impeachment against the genius. I don\u2019t expect them to go anywhere, but perhaps more important is that Larson and others have demanded that the 25th Amendment be invoked to remove Demented Don from office. In doing so they are explicitly, though perhaps not explicitly enough, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-the-very-stable-genius"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}