I didn’t only because I knew that Cheney would be as awful a president. We needed an event to go badly where everyone was in attendance.

(If the thinkable happened, J. D. Vance would try to be a worse president than Trump, but his unrizz will not sway the MAGA base, and I even think Republican congress-critters will turn on him.)

What we need is a revised US Constitution at the ready that has been ironclad so it doesn’t depend on political norms. What we need is an omnibus ready to restore national institutions that were meant to keep us safe. What we need is a massive reformation of SCOTUS (to keep them from vetoing everything and installing a king) and the federal election system that stops cold gerrymandering, voter suppression, voter caging and election tampering, so that we can finally have elections that are actually free and fair.

These things might not immediately pass into law / ratification right when Trump’s triumpal arch is toppled but they should be ready as soon as there is the will to pass them through.

And we need it soon, before the world devolves into world war, and we’re stuck with this administration until Chinese bombers are blotting out the sun over Washington.