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How to stop Trump’s wrecking ball
How do you stop a problem like Donald Trump? Unless you want the US Secret Service to come knocking any solution needs to work through the system rather than any physical removal, so within those boundaries lets scope out the size of the problem, what countries globally have done to remedy Trumpian figures, and then how plausible it is to enact those solutions.
The most likely answer to Trump lies in his age and health, in as much that he could die in office or be removed due to incapacity under the 25th Amendment. This leaves the door open to J D Vance. The US has a history of Vice Presidents picking up the reins mid-term, though with a decidedly mixed record. Gerald Ford oversaw the economic decline in the 1970s, Lindon Johnson got the US deeper into the quagmire of Vietnam and oversaw policies that directly led to Trump’s election, Truman used the atomic bomb and failed to stop the communist witch hunts, and Coolidge’s policies led to the Great Depression. Undoubtedly each had their virtues, with LBJ’s civil rights platform finally nailing Jim Crow to the door. The point is each was a curate’s egg, essentially a random number generator compared with their predecessor. Vance is a know quantity; he is young, religious, a proponent in Project 2025, and has the backing of Peter Theil. Putting him in power could exponentially make things worse.
