His experience proves true. He backed the dude up against a locker. The bully ran. Seriously, ran. I was just down the hall, and my guy is NOT confrontational at all (years ago, in high school incident).

sTrumpet thinks he's powerful. He's a total coward. AND knows it, so uses bully tactics he think will work.

But what it says about folks who voted for him is really scary.

acts like an ass all the time to cover up their insecurities.

That's where the real problem lies.

....how a considerable sector of the human race worldwide seem to crave a powerful, symbolic leader without regards to that person's character, knowledge, or even sanity. All that's required, it seems, is (pick your race's color) skin, steely eyes, a big square jaw, a suit & tie with huge shoulder pads, an authoritative voice, and a line of bullshit a mile long. I think it has been that way throughout recorded history.

...and fear of death. Save us, preacher man, save us!

Key word there is "symbolic". Trump is a paper tiger. In reality he is a sniveling little coward. I would like nothing more than to see someone with REAL, personal power and integrity to stand up to him and show him to be the weak, pathetic shell of a man he is.

Power and integrity together has almost become an oxymoron, at least in politics. I can think of a few in the US that have the integrity, but not the power. Some of those like Carter have spoken, but mostly to deaf ears. It's a sad and bazaar irony that Putin could probably damage him as much as anyone (no integrity but lots of power).

What's amazing to me though, is the fascination and blind loyalty that those of this peculiar mindset (usually in conservative ranks) have with that symbolic figure. It seems the image of "dear leader" becomes an object to endear and worship, much like a statue of Christ , Virgin Mary or the Buddha. And, as in religion, it becomes a herd mentality.

Some psychologists say that folks of this mindset build a mental structure of authoritarian hierarchy and once it's built, it cannot be disturbed. One of the most extreme examples we've witnessed is that of Ronald Reagan. He fit into their structure of authoritarianism perfectly, since there had been a huge void for them after Nixon fell.

Al Franken or Kamala Harris take him to task. He couldn't hold a candle to either one of them in battle of strength or intelligence.

By influence on a pathologically incompetent president, they have maneuvered their people into the vice presidency, onto the supreme court, into most of his cabinet positions, and into many other lower positions and judgeships. They have also persuaded him to adopt many of their policies and commit, as much as is possible for such a disordered mind, to their destructive anti-government agenda.

His election was a trumpster voter rebellion against their control, but a pathetically stupid one that they are making the most of.

Rump is being blamed by many for the failure of their agents in congress to gut social programs, but that one's really on their own overweaning greed and callousness. For years they managed to delude voters into transferring our nation's wealth and power to them and into cluelessly supporting the destruction of all the social programs they grew up with, but they have to make them want to jump off that cliff now that they're finally able to realize it's right in front of them. And that's a problem for them.

Early on in the Republican primaries a group of radicals saw that Trump was going to beat the rest of the Republicans. They used Trumps mental deficiencies in a way that out them on the inside of his campaign.

This goes against the grain here but I consider Bannon to be a great personal strategist(not political). His rise to one of the most influential people in the country was amazing. What he didn't see is that Trumps personal instability, which is one of the reasons for Bannons great rise, was also a reason it was destine to fail for Bannon. Many ultra conservatives attached themselves to an unstable man who completely lacks impulse control.

But it can't clean up this shit!

Burn some of it to the ground? Begin fresh.

..state reps begging them to start impeachment proceedings asap. Use whatever crime trumps committed as an excuse. I used the impending war with NK that will result in American lives lost because of trumps incompetence...

"the next President" those words seem a long way off. I doubt there will be a next president.

The GOP isn't going to keep him once they realize he's a liability to them politically. The rest of us want him gone for the good of the country and the world. And he will go, and become a footnote.

The real challenge is to make sure this doesn't happen again.