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Do you really think there's anything short of violence that will will cause him to leave office?
Severe medical events. But I think the most realistic hope is if enough people help replace some MAGA congresspeople in 2026 so they can stonewall the rest of his term.
He isn't going through congress or obeying court orders. He's already replaced all leadership with yes men.
How could you think normal procedures would work? Even if they did, the democrats have shown they aren't interested in stopping him.
Congress rubber stamped Trump's cabinet and actively facilitated his budgetary demands. Hell, they passed the Lake Riley Act before he took office. Bureaucrats who put up any kind of resistance have been fired en mass while Congress and the Courts did nothing to object. He's faced no meaningful resistance.
He doesn't need to go through Congress because Congress is bending over backwards to appease him. He doesn't have to respect the Courts, because the Roberts Court seems intent on clearing his path.
An opposition legislation/court gives the bureaucracy a foundation on which to refuse compliance. Nobody is offering that.
Please suggest how Democrats should stop him now.
Not vote for his cabinet nominees, to start with
Who voted for RFK and Pam Bondi and Hegseth?
A lightning strike on the golf course?
Diarrhea
He left office in 2020 because the military leadership wouldn't back him and the Mike Pence wing of the party was sick of him.
Very possible that he gets kicked out because Peter Thiel is tired of him and wants a replacement.
But who replaces Trump? If the Dems decide to re-run Joe Biden and Marc Anderssen joins Mike Bloomberg in chairing the DNC, what do you win by electing the Silicon Valley Certified Democrat over the Silicon Valley Certified Republican?
If he had another daughter to molest.