Another 25th Amendment teaser.
As if that is where this lands.
As if that is the mechanism that suddenly wakes up and does something.
It wonโt.
The 25th Amendment requires the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to act against the President.
Babeyโฆ donโt hold your breath. Ainโt happening.
So letโs stop dressing that up like itโs a real intervention point.
In January.
โAmerica, the World Looks On โ The Village Idiot Becomes the Main Character.โ
And in that piece, I wasnโt being theatrical.
I was tracing a shift.
I wrote about a country moving from governance into performance, where spectacle begins to override restraintโ where the seriousness of office is no longer the anchor, just the backdrop.
I questioned thenโquietly but directlyโ what happens when behavior that should trigger institutional response is instead absorbed, debated, normalized.
What, exactly, are we calling โAmerican greatnessโ now?
And here we are.
Still absorbing.
If the President can perform contempt on camera and remain untouched, while ordinary people absorb the consequencesโ and if our public reflex to both tragedy and misconduct is to fundraise instead of reckonโ
then the moral question is unavoidable:
Not the sloganโ
the substance.
Not the mythโ
the measure.
Where is the soul of the nation if the compass only points toward spectacle?
This President, with braggadocious stupor, threatened to take out a whole nation.
And stillโ we reach for explanations that soften it, mechanisms that wonโt move, language that makes it feel contained.
Even the guardrails people like to point toโthe courtsโ donโt move because something sounds outrageous.
They move when something is filed, argued, processed.
And while that is happeningโ everything else continues.
The asylum is being run by the inmates.
Trump and his minions are creating history.
The absolute, irreparable damage inflicted on the world by this Administration will lend chapters to World Historyโ denoted exactly as what an egomaniacal tyrant would desire:
to be imprinted on the world stage for undiluted, macabre remembrance.





