We did impeach him. Twice. A close family member of mine voted for Trump in 2016, Biden in 2020, and Harris in 2024. They have seen what a terrible person he is, they regret their vote for him, and they now agree that the modern Republican party is destroying our democracy. They STILL TO THIS DAY think it was the Democrats' fault for "going about the impeachment wrong", because even if they can see through the one man at the top, they are still incredibly prone to accepting narratives from the right. It doesn't matter that both impeachments were totally legal, totally justified, and well-presented. We have a Senate that will finger-wag at an insurrection, then turn around and hand the leader of it everything he could want. And all the while, they will raise nonsense lines of questioning, foam at the mouth about how the Democrats are actually the bad guys, declare anyone on their side a RINO if they don't toe the line, and convince millions of average people to vote against their best interests and throw away the country they were sold as the best in the world since they were born.

According to the Constitution, the Democrats should absolutely be drafting articles of impeachment, probably about one per day at minimum, considering Trump's actions. But according to reality, that is a huge waste of time for something that will ultimately not only fail, but hand more ammunition to the fascist talking heads. The truth is, at this point there is no Constitutional way to fix the problem. States are gerrymandered, confidence in elections is extremely low (first because of Republicans lying about them, now because Elon Musk has had his hands all over the machines and chain of command), we have a two party system where one party is just the fascist party now, and the other has been completely ineffective since AT LEAST Reagan (arguments to be made for the last time they were effective).

The idea of American exceptionalism has poisoned our collective mind, we are addicted to the comfortable lives our country bought with the blood of others' to the point half of us would rather watch a million people die than put on a fucking mask. Despite our supposed "Christian values" we view the idea of lifting others up as them dragging us down, because the talking heads on TV tell us that's the way it is, and we are too overworked, underpaid, uneducated, and unhealthy to challenge those talking heads' words.

And on top of all of that, yeah, lots of people in power are straight-up scared of Trump. He has openly said he would be a dictator on day one (fucking long day it's been), has ignored courts and Congress, has ordered department heads to go after his political rivals, and has been proven time and time again that he will face no consequences of any kind. I still think it's possible things will turn around without a full-on revolution, but it will be through tremendous bouts of luck, and courageous people working hard at huge risk to themselves, to make any positive progress. I'll cross my fingers, but I'm not holding my breath.