You assume that the crazy old man can be "handled" successfully?.....
I assume people will
try.
He can be handled - people have noted that he can be baited into things and manipulated in all kinds of ways.
More importantly, as his cognitive state declines, people will be more and more motivated to handle him.
I think it's more likely that factions and individuals within the GOP and the Mar-a-Tasteless inner circle are maneuvering to place their own people in the VP slot. And assuming that Trump is even more of a dribbling, ranting dementia case in office than he is already, does any GOP-per have the balls to 25 him given the obloquy that will then attach to them as the "party traitor" among the MAGA peasants?
This is exactly my point.
We are going to be have a glimpse of which factions are in what position based on the VP pick.
Every faction is going to try and make sure that the VP isn't someone who will invoke the 25th on their own.
Trump and family - maybe some loyalists - will want someone who will never invoke it no matter what.
Most others will take the route where the goal is to have control of the VP, but never pull the trigger on Trump and instead just use him as a puppet like Reagan was after the Alzheimer's hit.
There
may be some who think they can launch the VP into control via 25th first chance they get but I doubt that. More likely the 25th will only really come into play if Trump becomes so obviously demented that the media can't hide it anymore.
If that happens, the very delicate dance of invoking 25 without provoking the cult backlash comes into play.
But I suspect there is going to be a LOT of backstabbing and court shenanigans in a second Trump regime, because handling an increasingly demented dictator is always tricky.
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