i still think that the democrats should not impeach donald trump again

even if they're successful, what they're going to get is president j.d. vance, and i feel like he's the kind of slimy guy who spent the last two years meticulously figuring out the exact way to take dictatorial power in a way that won't fail the same way january 6th did

trump, at least somewhat, cares about his public image and wants to leave a good legacy for himself, and isn't married to a specific ideology (consider how much he used to jump parties before), so he's more pliable in that way and can work with the democrats on certain things (consider how friendly he was to zohran mamdani when the latter visited the white house -- i bet that in that case, his love of "winners" and new york city overrode his political rivalry)

whereas j.d. vance is a thiel-grown illiberal technocrat, for whom getting rid of democracy and replacing it with corporate rule is a goal, rather than a means to an end

do all the rest of the stuff -- subpoena and investigate trump's cronies, expand the supreme court, abolish ICE and so on

(or, alternatively, find something that can get both trump and vance impeached -- apparently, the third person in the US government succession chain is the speaker of the house, who will by then be a democrat)