I'm guessing every day for at least the next 11 days will demonstrate yet another example of Trump's lawlessness. Today, we have what amounts to obstruction of justice in Georgia (naturally).
The House looks to impeach (or try to impeach) on Monday. That's providing we survive the weekend. It does sound like the military is taking steps to remove Trump's ability to create a war away from him. Given reports of him being basically non compos mentis, I doubt he has the mental wherewithal to make a "cunning plan" to subvert the measures being put in place to constrain him.
If the House votes to impeach on Monday or Tuesday, the Senate trial can basically hang over his head as a threat. Personally, I hope that McConnell brings the Senate back into sessions and almost all Republicans stay away. Conviction in the Senate of a sitting President requires 2/3rds of all members present. If all 48 Democrats (presuming Ossoff and Warnock are not yet certified the winners) and a handful of Republicans (McConnell, Romney, Toomey would do) are present, Trump could be removed from office. Republicans can claim they didn't support it because they are cowards. The nation could be spared Trump's manic flailings and self-serving pardons. Pence can put on his Big Boy Pants for a week and we can wait to see what fresh hell Trump and his cultists unleash on 1/20.
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