So, a new lawsuit is suing to stop Trump from running again, claiming he can't run because he committed insurrection, which prohibits running running for office as per the 14th Amendment of the constitution.
In principle, I agree with this move. After January 6th, Trump is, IMO, a literal danger to society, and given his blatantly illiberal and unconstitutional actions, I honestly think he should be barred, and that this be a moment of saving democracy from itself.
If trump gets in elected office again, he might try this crap again, and he might succeed. Best to shut him out from power as much as reasonably possible.
The real question is, how can we properly enforce this? Everyone deserves their day in court, even trump, and everyone has a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, even trump.
And while trump is facing a lot of charges, some of which might be relevant, barring a criminal conviction, I'm not sure he can be held liable in this sense.
Also, if the mechanism is congress, good luck getting republicans to go along with it. As much as the party establishment would LOVE to get rid of trump, barring him from running from office could cause them to basically commit electoral suicide. Unlike the left, republican voters dont take party establishments playing political games well and are more likely to metaphorically burn the party to the ground for trying to screw with them, than to go along with being shoehorned by the establishment into supporting another candidate.
Also, we know where the voters lie. If Trump doesn't get the nomination, the most likely candidates to win in his stead are currently Ron Desantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy, both of which are also quite illiberal and may pose their respective threats to democracy. I'd expect Ron Desantis to act lawfully, but still act in ways that could threaten political opponents subtlely, while Ramaswamy might as well be the schwarze mann from the Angst music video with how nuts that guy is.
Again, that's the real long term problem with trump....even if we get rid of him, his coalition may not go anywhere for a while (especially if the democrats keep sticking to their existing approach to politics), and we may be getting nutcases out of the GOP for quite some time.
So...the real question is...can we really bar trump from running? if we can, it's better to do so sooner than later. I mean, the closer we get to the election, the less likely the forces that be are going to wanna intervene. It would be best to wrap this up in 2023. Which means the justice system better haul butt in trying these cases against the Don. Indicting is one thing but this stuff needs to actually GO TO COURT. I think it would be ideal for this to be settled before the 2024 primaries start at the beginning of next year. And if he ain't barred from running by the time he clinches the republican nomination in July 2024 at the republican national convention, well, we're gonna be stuck with the guy. And I'm gonna feel more pressure to vote for Biden myself, and I really don't want that. I want freedom to be able to vote for whomever I wanna vote for, without having the gun of a nutcase like trump at my head, negatively influencing my decision in ways that I would normally resist, but I feel like I can't say no to given the severity of the threat against democracy itself.
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