It pains me to use the great United States of America and banana republic in the same sentence. But we have to evaluate the evidence and draw our own individual conclusions.

Is the U.S. on the brink of becoming a banana republic?

Before I depress you with the evidence to answer this question as objectively as I can, I would like to present how we can prevent this scenario from happening.

We must not think that in order to change things for the better or stop President Donald Trump from continuing his abuse of power, we have to wait until mid-term elections. No, that does not necessarily have to be the case.

Democrats please listen. As I told you, Trump is celebrating the closing of the government (he also has been using AI “artwork” and video memes to make his case against you). And, as I told you, Trump would blame it on you. I am telling

you now to get off your derrieres and start to truly engage the president now.

Our nation may not be recognizable in another 14 months or by the 2026 mid-term election, as look what has happened in only nine months.

On foreign affairs, I applaud Trump’s efforts. We are closer to having peace in the Middle East than at any other time in recent history. But domestically, Trump is acting like he is leading a banana republic.

You cannot respond adequately to this kind of president via conventional means, as Trump has so far ignored all traditional practices. Thus, you must be unconventional as well.

In a banana republic, the opposition forces “try” to show the ruler that the masses object to his rule. We have a mechanism in place now to scream this at Trump and show the world. We need to have state legislatures convene to have a no confidence vote on Trump. It would take governors to call the legislatures back into session (you know just like when Trump wanted to gerrymander Texas congressional districts).

Even where Republican governors are in power, any state that has a state house and/or state senate controlled by Democrats

can also hold a no confidence resolution vote. There are a number of states that could do so within a week, and others would have to wait until they are required to be in session.

This would also put pressure on the Supreme Court to recognize the magnitude of this pending crisis and start to truly do their jobs and be a “true arbiter of the fate of our democratic republic.”

Would such action be the start of a civil war? No, we are simply trying to get Trump 2.0 to be more like Trump 1.0. In Trump’s first term, he did not ignore laws or change laws all on his own. He did not think he was king; he was not an

authoritarian. He did not threaten nearly every existing institution in the country with Godfather-esque tactics. Or as one Trump official stated, “We can do it the easy way or the hard way.” This is a line straight out of every mafia movie.

Thus, this is correctable. Presently, Trump has no guard rails. He does anything he wants, despite our constitution having given us three branches of government.

Republican members of Congress are robots, sycophants, and the speed of courts, especially the Supreme Court, moves too slowly. Instead, the Supreme Court should give a quick response to Trump’s actions just like its rapid decision following the Bush-Gore election.

Trump must be forced to retreat or face a no confidence vote by the American people, carried out by the representatives of the American people – state legislative houses and state legislative senates all across America.

The founders and writers of the Constitution understood the value of states’ rights and many were against too much control by the federal government. Well today, the latter has too much control.

Trump has used the executive office to wield power that he has and power he clearly does not have to force people to capitulate. He creates confrontation and forces “a deal.” He uses federal funding as his tool. For example, he has

no right or power to use the military against American citizens, and he has no right or power to solely deny or restrict federal funding. Congress controls the purse.

Trump has used bogus arguments that at times look inane. He has proclaimed things that are clearly not true (an emergency, for example, to start a tariff war with the world).

He has spent an inordinate amount of time and resources seeking to stop the advocacy of equal opportunities for all Americans, previously established by law on merit, not prejudice. He is saying that if you are born in America you are not necessarily an American.

He has declared calm American cities “war zones.” A judge in Oregon decided on the latter, basically calling Trump “untethered from the facts.”

Excuse me – is this a polite

way of calling the president a liar or is it saying that Trump is removed from

reality?

Maybe both.