http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired
Good, long read on what impeachment actually means, and the historical difficulty of doing so, and meaning of impeachment.
One side point brought up in this article, that I never put together, is that Trump Co is a family-run business. Meaning: not public. No Board, no stockholders. No one to answer to but whoever sits at the top.
Trump.
Pretty much the perfect place to hide all of your mental failings, gross incompetence, flailing ignorance and insanity, all the while controlling the choreographed image of what you are in the public's eye, so long as checks keep rolling in (seemingly miraculously, by all accounts). It is a perfect situation for succeeding through criminal indulgence. Next to this, the only other image of Trump is a reality TV star: an image no less controlled than the first.
The presidency is the first time in his life that all of his failures, all of his unbridled incompetence and childish mind are laid bare for everyone to see. It must absolutely infuriate him that he can't control this image, that not enough people are shielding him from the expected fallout of his decisions and, simply his personality, having a real effect on people for the very first time.
It makes one snicker at the types that get a hard-on for the businessman holding political office. being the leader. This, of course, never should have applied to Trump; It should never have been considered. Trump has never been a businessman: he's an oligarch of his own reality. Never has he had to deal in the public sphere, make decisions and compromises for the solubility of his company, for his employees--because he has only ever had to make decisions for himself.
What we have is an emperor that never even had any clothes.
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