Impeaching the moron

Hillary as a lawyer during Nixon impeachment

From Andrew Sullivan's impeachment essay in last week's NY Times Book Review:

...The founders knew that without a virtuous citizenry, the Constitution was a mere piece of paper and, in Madison’s words, “no theoretical checks — no form of government can render us secure.” Franklin was blunter in forecasting the moment we are now in: He believed that the American experiment in self-government “can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” 

You can impeach a president, but you can’t, alas, impeach the people. They voted for the kind of monarchy the American republic was designed, above all else, to resist; and they have gotten one.

Rob's comment:

Bertolt Brecht, mocking authoritarian government, proposed replacing the people:

Some party hack decreed that the people
had lost the government's confidence
and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
If that is the case, would it not be be simpler
If the government simply dissolved the people
And elected another?

We can begin repairing most of the damage Trump is doing to our democracy after the November midterm elections and finish the job by electing a new president in 2020. 

But in defense of the American people, remember that Hillary beat Trump by 2,865,075 votes, 65,844,954 (48.2%) to 62,979,879 (46.1%). Only the flawed electoral system created by our sainted Founding Fathers allowed that asshole to win.

H.L. Mencken's prediction, alas, has come true:

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.