August 26, 2017

Summers makes a good point

Maybe we need a provision for a no confidence vote?

[A]ll of this points up a challenge in our constitutional system. What happens when a democratically elected President is or becomes dangerous and incompetent but has not committed a “high crime or misdemeanor” and is not medically unfit to serve? Any corporate board would have removed a CEO as erratic as President Trump before now. A Cabinet member far out of bounds would be removed by the President. In a parliamentary system, a Head of government performing like President Trump would be removed by members of their own party as Margaret Thatcher was with much less provocation or would lose a vote no confidence. In an ordered authoritarian state like China, the Central Committee would act. American democracy stands out for lacking a rapid correction mechanism for egregious inability to properly function as President.

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