To make “a phone and a pen” work, you have to have a guaranteed lock on 34 senators against conviction of impeachment. And you need journalism behind you to get that.None of the above is available to either Trump or Cruz.
Bottom line. The most that might be done is to force the Democrats to back a regime of limitations on future abuses of executive power - in effect, a weakening of the executive branch. Under threat of indicting Obama for his abuses. Even then, the president would not actually jail a former president if he had any choice in the matter. It just is not done, for it would set a precedent that no president can safely leave office to a successor.
In order to effect real change the MSM - read, wire service journalism - must be brought to book. They are supposedly our informants, but in fact they are ignorant arrogance factories. It is obvious that the AP newswire constitutes a continual virtual meeting of all major journalism, and this constitutes a
conspiracy in restraint of tradeBorg where the framers of the Constitution expected vigorous ideological competition.A simple antitrust action against the AP - for triple damages, if brought as a civil suit - could suffice.
Good post!