House Republican Andy Ogles goes off the deep end
For awhile now I’ve been warning you that Donald Trump and his allies were doing everything they could to make Trump look dangerously powerful, as a distraction from the reality that he’s become pathetically weak. All of Trump’s rhetoric about seizing Canada and Greenland and Panama, for instance, is intended for this purpose. Better for him to be criticized for something that makes him look strong, than be seen as weak, their logic goes. Now it’s happening again.
House Republican Andy Ogles, a Trump loyalist and world class idiot, has introduced a constitutional amendment that would allow Donald Trump to serve a third term as President. This is outrageous for too many reasons to list, but it also has literally zero chance of passing. There’s a reason we can never pass any constitutional amendments, even good ones. It would require a supermajority of Congress or a supermajority of the states, and this Ogles amendment would never come within a country mile of getting either of those.
So what is this? A distraction. Look over here, not over there. House Republicans like Ogles know that introducing such an amendment will receive widespread backlash. But they also know that as long as the narrative is that Trump is too dangerously powerful, no one will be talking about the fact that he’s senile and looks like he’s about to keel over and can’t govern.
Please, don’t take the bait. Don’t let Ogles and the Republicans make “Trump is trying for a third term” become the narrative. If you take that bait, you’ll be giving them exactly what they want: a national discussion about how powerful Trump is. Skip that and instead focus on talking up just how weak Trump is. The guy barely exists at this point.
