America's future looks grim from here

Emil Bove currently sits on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. It is a lifetime appointment and he was born in 1981. His level of corruption as an employee of the Department of Justice was striking. For instance, Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian report that he participated in dismissing criminal investigations against both Eric Adams and Tom Homan.

Should a future administration and Congress committed to the rule of law attempt to impeach and remove Bove from the bench?

Spoiler: Whatever you think the answer is to that should question, the will question is easy. No future administration will attempt to remove Bove.

They will understand that such an attempt would fail.

It would be deemed a distraction from the president’s agenda.

Bove is safe. For forever.

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{Perhaps a future president] would fire FBI Director Kash Patel in 2029, even though Patel would have six years remaining in his term, Republicans would scream, the New York Times would spend a week clucking about the norm-breaking, and Fox would give the story three hours of airtime every day until the rapture. It is possible that this theoretical president might also fire FCC chief Brendan Carr, even if his term was not over.

But what happens to the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, which will be the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, a group of people recruited specifically for the task of masked thuggery?

Spoiler: They won’t be abolished, even though they should be.

  Bulwark

This all supposes the remainder of Trump's term permits free and fair elections, and that even then, Americans won't elect another fascist. I am not optimistic.

Does [a future president] gut the federal scientific agencies? Does he undertake a massive purge of every crank, quack, and hack who was hired/installed during the Trump/Kennedy regime?

How would that work? Who would he replace them with? Where would he find reputable scientists and administrators willing to go into a government bureaucracy that is now distrusted by most of the country?

It's highly unlikely that a future president would undertake a DOGE-like purge like the one the Trump administration has effected. But that's what it would take to even begin to restore democracy.

Our goose is cooked. I think the states will be deeply divided into Blue and Red until such time as the Red have overcome any resistance and resistance is futile. But we still have to resist.  

"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human."

Every day brings more stories of destruction.

And today just got started.

UPDATE 09:58 am: