The Decline of the West Part II

The saga in Thuringia continues. Thomas Kemmerich has realised that his attempt to sell his manoeuvre as a win for the middle was met with overwhelming scorn and scepticism so he backtracked at first saying he would resign and then instead wiggled around to say that he can't just resign as that would leave Thuringia without a Minister President. He then announced he would hold office while a solution was found to either have a new election, which requires a majority in the Thuringian parliament, a vote of no-confidence which again requires a majority in the parliament, or he declares no confidence in himself basically hiding behind some technicalities of Thuringian parliamentary law.

Sound obtuse.

It is.

But it has thrown the FDP into a tailspin from which them may not recover on a national level as well as dragged the CDU through the mud opening up the possibility that AKK be replaced, perhaps by Mr Merz who is slippery as an eel and is definitely blind in his right eye.

All of which takes us back to the fallout of the impeachment that wasn't.

Fully recognising that hindsight is 20-20 it was always clear that the Senate was never going to convict Trump. Even if Alexander Hamilton hammered away in the Federalist Papers about the dangers of partisanship in the impeachment process he did not really come up with a solution other than to rely on the moral fortitude of the Senate to jump over their own shadow and do the right thing.

In the end Mitch Romney, for all his faults, was the only Republican member of the Senate who had the moral fibre to stand up and vote against Trump. The rest of the Republicans couldn't stand up because that effort requires backbone which is something the rest of them don't have.

What concerns me however are the next moves by Trump.

Having already embraced Hitler's quote to "make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" (Mein Kampf 1923) he has gone a step further and foreshadowed a Night of the Long Knives by getting rid of those who opposed him.

In the first instance Gordon Sondland and Alexander Vindman, but in keeping with true Nazi dogma, didn't stop with
Alexander, but went after his brother too- "one must eradicate the entire clan...".

The light of liberty is flickering.

How do we wake America up to the danger?