Your Medium article on Trump and the 25th Amendment was, not surprisingly, well-done. The gutlessness of Trump’s Cabinet — -indeed, the entire roster of Republican Senators and most Congresspeople — -brings shame on America’s federal legislature. Cognitive dysfunction on the part of the electorate that is getting gored the most by the Trumpian bull is one thing, but our legislators should have a reasonably good idea of their responsibilities towards their constituents.

Knowledge, however, is different from character, and character is the quality sorely-lacking in Vice President Pence and the rest of the sycophantic toadies enjoying their in situ retirement in the Cabinet.

An even more stark prospect awaits us: Trump is not convicted in the Senate trial on his impeachment. He takes that as the sign of a resounding victory. He loses in the general election in November 2020, but refuses to leave office. He initiates lawsuits, challenging the election. The courts, proceeding at their usual glacial pace, don’t have an answer by January 20, 2021, and so we have two potential inaugurations: one for the real winner, and the other for Trump.

The duly-elected President is then forced to bring in military police to physically remove Trump from office. He refuses to go peacefully, and there is the threat of violence not only his part, but on the part of the mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers whose DNA is contaminated by the Trump virus. A Civil War redux is initiated, and all the gun-toting Walmart shoppers initiate a blood-bath. Sane people wonder when we’ll be done with the “thinning of the herd,” and how many innocent lives will be snuffed out, all because Trump never got spanked as a child….