by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarals
While whatever is wrong with Trump has gotten worse, it’s still not bad enough for it to be a “crisis.” The thing about Trump’s mental problems is he’s not bipolar. It’s unlikely he’s going to go stark raving mad in the traditional sense. His problems are more subtle, chronic and slowly degenerative.
If anything, his grasp on reality is ever-so-slowly beginning to fray, but in a way that is reasonably easy for his supporters to dismiss, deflect or rationalize away. To date, he hasn’t done anything so extreme that Republicans would pull their head out of the butts long enough to notice.
He could go on like this well into a second term. Or by that point we may have a defacto Regency like we had under Wilson and Reagan. And, remember, Reagan in the last few years of his presidency was pretty much out to lunch and yet left his second term one of the most popular presidents in recent memory.
So, Trump would have to really push it for it to be a “crisis.” He would have to do something so surreal, so bizarre that Republican Cult Leaders would start to mull the possibility of a Pence presidency seriously. I just don’t see that happening — ever. Anything Trump did that sparked a crisis would likely only help him politically. I mean, he could start a war with Iran because he’s lost his mind and it would only help him with his base. Lee Greenwood would pop out of his crypt and you know the drill. Or if there was a crisis not of Trump’s making he could easily use it to suspend the Constitution and Democrats would still simply stamp their feet in anger.
Nothing, really, would happen.
I can only assume that Trump could still be tweeting about Alabama a month or six months from now and…nothing would happen. Trump would have to do something like whip is cock out on TV for it to be anywhere near a “crisis.”
While I don’t see that occurring anytime soon, stranger things have happened.
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