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What exactly is going on here and what has to happen?

I have seen frustration with Speaker Johnson’s recent comments regarding the insufficiency of evidence for an impeachment process at the moment.

How can this be? How can he be so tone deaf? There are copies of freaking checks made out to him, for goodness’ sake!

The answer is not that Johnson is weak or corrupt. The answer is not that there is insufficient evidence to impeach Biden. The answer is that impeaching Biden is not the point at all.

I wrote earlier that I believe that Trump is seeking an unprecedented mandate from the American People. He is proposing to purge government (and perhaps more) of the Deep State. He is proposing Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. He is proposing an unprecedented rounding up and deportation of illegal aliens. To do this Trump requires a mandate to do so. He requires the CONSENT of the governed, or at least the powerful appearance of the consent of the governed to undertake these unprecedented acts.

Let us ponder the enormity of Trump’s task.

While periodic elections in the USA and elsewhere give a fig leaf of cover, a veneer of electoral legitimacy, to whomever it is that sits with executive authority in our towns, cities, counties, states, and in federal office, the reality is that no President receives the majority of votes from the citizens of the USA. At best there is a plurality. Biden’s 81 million votes is not even a quarter of the number of citizens.

Thus every President walks a tightrope. If he pushes too far, he loses support and imperils his reelection or that of a member of his party. He will be restrained by a Congress that has its own electoral future in mind. Even the tame media will criticise a President that starts wildly undertaking projects that were not part of his campaign platform.

Every President relies on the consent of the governed to move forward, exactly as every leader, apart from those engaging in naked conquest (and even they have to normalise their rule afterwards), has done since time immemorial.

Consent is not some formal question i.e., do you hereby consent to be governed thusly? Consent back in the day used to be rather black and white. Consent was either paying your taxes or splitting the King’s tax collector’s head open. The legend of Robin Hood emerged from this very question.

Today, consent emerges largely from apathy. Did you and all of your MAGA neighbours take to the streets in protest in 2020? Have you massed before the state capitol to oppose dirty elections? Do you continue to pay taxes? Etcetera. If we continue to to perform our civic roles in an ordinary fashion, those who seek to exploit us may safely infer that we are consenting to this treatment, even if we grumble about it a bit.

At a minimum, between now and January 2025, Trump and MAGA Republicans must obtain a mandate from a sufficient plurality of American voters to secure a rigging-proof victory at the polls. But what must also be secured is sufficient consent from, I’d assert, a substantial MAJORITY of Americans such that when Trump’s unprecedented measures are implemented the nation does not erupt in flames.

Importantly, since the deep state and its lackeys will attempt to ignite these flames, the consent of the governed must be widespread enough to permit a local and federal response that quickly, and even brutally, extinguishes them before they spread.

Thus we see Trump laying it all out. Massive deportations. Truth and Reconciliation. Etcetera. Because he needs not only to engineer a MAGA win, he has to earn grudging support (even if it means just shutting up and letting it happen) from millions more Americans who may never cast a vote for him.

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