The Democrats Made Biden Step Aside— Why Is The GOP Unable To Do The Same With Trump, Who's Insane?

On Monday, Jackie Calmes asserted that Trump’s state of mind should be under debate. It’s pretty clear now that Trump’s deranged at best, completely insane more likely. She wrote that “For years it’s been clear to mental health experts as well as the armchair variety, to Republicans as well as Democrats, that Donald Trump is not well in the head. Yet his behavior— the pathological lying, childish name-calling, grandiosity and narcissistic obsession with crowd sizes, open bigotry, erraticism, desire to be liked (loved!) by murderous dictators— long ago became normalized. Trump’s fire hose of cray-cray has inured Americans to his outrages. He unabashedly owns the offenses, then repeats them. And enough of our fellow citizens like that about him, and dislike his opponents, that they elected him president and may do so again.”

Since she brought it up, it’s important to note that most American voters never cast a ballot for Trump. In 2016, with a 60.1% turnout, significantly more voters opted for Hillary— 65,853,514 (48.2%) to 62,984,828 (46.1%). Four years later the turnout was better— 66.6%— but he again lost the popular vote, this time 74,223,975 (46.8%) to Biden’s 81,283,501 (51.3%). So… don’t blame “the American people.”

Calmes posits that “now that President Biden, a normal and empathetic man, has been pushed out of the 2024 race over concerns about his age and mental acuity, Trump’s more manifest unfitness for office should be ignored no longer— by the media, former advisors and military leaders who remain silent and, yes, Republicans. Trouble is, Americans can talk about Trump’s madness, but what’s to be done? Republican ‘leaders,’ who privately concede the truth about their nominee, won’t push him out. They’ve enabled him this long, through repeated down-ballot losses, impeachments, incitements and indictments. And unlike Biden, Trump won’t go voluntarily: He lost an election but was so determined to keep power that he provoked an insurrection.”

Still, she thinks that “A serious discussion and debate about Trump’s state of mind wouldn’t be pointless. It might tip the scales for the few undecided voters in the half-dozen swing states who will decide the election. Do they really want him to control the nuclear codes?” Mental health professionals, she believes, have a civic “duty to warn.” And Trump’s been behaving in a noticeably crazier-than-before way since Kamala’s momentum started overtaking him in poll after poll. He’s clearly flipping out.

At the Mar-a-Lago news conference, Trump claimed his crowds are not only bigger than Harris’ but also that his Jan. 6 audience near the National Mall exceeded the estimated 250,000 who heard the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech in Washington in 1963. It didn’t; Trump’s was estimated at 53,000. But who boasts about a crowd that went on to attack the Capitol?

So much of what he told reporters was a lie or the tall tales of an old man—162 misstatements in 64 minutes, by NPR’s count. All it took were calls to Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor and California Assembly speaker, and to Nate Holden, former Los Angeles city councilman and state senator, for reporters to debunk Trump’s claim he’d once nearly crashed in a helicopter with Brown. His point was that Brown, who once dated Harris, badmouthed her, on a trip the two men never took together.

Trump also denied that he falsely said what millions of Americans have heard or can easily find on YouTube: that Harris identified as Indian American until she decided to “turn Black.” “I didn’t say it,” he lied, adding for mean measure that she’s been “very disrespectful” to both racial groups.

Since the assassination attempt against him, Trump repeatedly has mocked talk that his brush with death might transform him. “I’m not nicer,” he told donors at one event.

Truth, finally.

He told reporters at Mar-a-Lago that Harris “destroyed San Francisco. She destroyed the state of California, along with Gov. Gavin New-scum.” In Montana, he falsely claimed Harris won’t debate him, “because she’s dumb.” On the weekend, video emerged on social media of Trump, with teenage son Barron beside him in a golf cart, calling Harris a “fucking bitch.”

A rich donor at a recent dinner asked Trump to describe a positive vision for the country. The New York Times reported that the question “appeared to be a request for reassurance.” But Trump stayed negative, further assailing Harris before adding, “I am who I am.”

Whatever that is, Trump is not fit to be president. Put him on the couch, not behind the Resolute Desk.

Meanwhile, across the country Aaron Blake decided to delineate 10 recent crackpot statements that should disqualify Trump from running— and would… if the GOP had the guts to make him step aside, the way the Democratic establishment did with Biden, who isn’t even dangerous or crazy the way Trump is.

• Harris’ rally crowds ‘DIDN’T EXIST’ and ‘nobody was there.’ …Trump didn’t merely say the crowd was augmented to appear bigger. He said it was wholly manufactured from “nobody.”

• Biden prepared to have the FBI assassinate Trump.

• Democrats’ messaging is to blame for the assassination attempt on Trump though the would-be assassin was a registered Republican.

• Biden faked covid.

• Trump went down in a helicopter with Willie Brown and when Brown said he had never been in a helicopter withTrump, Trump claimed he had documents to prove his assertion… which have never been produced.

• Biden will try to reclaim the Democratic nomination.

• Harris only recently identified as Black.

• Trump’s Jan. 6 crowd was bigger than MLK’s, though MLK drew 250,000 people in 1963 and Trump drew around 50,000.

• Other countries are emptying their prisons and sending criminals to the United States.

• Democrats want to allow killing babies after birth.

Although the just-filed UAW lawsuit against him and Musk won’t help his mental health, maybe this is what’s making him so much more insane than he was just a year ago: