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\u201cThe president is bonkers,\u201d declared Contrarian editor in chief Jennifer Rubin<\/u> on Wednesday. But while she asserts that President Donald Trump\u2019s increasingly erratic behavior poses risks to the country, she also thinks something can be done to defuse \u201cthe ticking time bomb in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe should not be surprised that Donald Trump is mentally and emotionally imploding under the cumulative effect of plunging poll numbers, his disastrous Iran war\u2026 and an increasingly irritable Senate Republican caucus,\u201d writes Rubin. As she explains, Trump has seen plunging support among his base, met several major legal setbacks, and encountered \u201cmultiple legislative losses unprecedented for a president with majorities in both houses.\u201d On top of that, he\u2019s watched his name get scraped off the Kennedy Center, had nearly all the performers for his birthday party cancel, and is met by a torrent of boos anytime he attends a sports event, resulting in \u201cthe pathological narcissist\u2019s worst nightmare: public humiliation<\/u>.\u201d<\/p>\n

While \u201cTrump\u2019s mental and physical disintegration has been on display for many years,\u201d in the face of his onslaught of embarrassments, Rubin suggests that the \u201cvelocity\u201d of his decompensation has increased.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a group of 36 mental health professionals recently explained<\/u> in a stinging written statement, Trump\u2019s outbursts are not \u2018momentary lapses nor political theater\u2019; they instead \u2018reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline,\u2019\u201d writes Rubin. \u201cAnd this was before Trump\u2019s explosion on Meet the Press, among the most cringeworthy presidential media appearances ever.\u201d What\u2019s more, says Rubin, \u201cyou do not have to be a medical professional to conclude Trump is getting much worse much more quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faced with such deranged leadership, argues Rubin, voters must \u201cdemand a robust debate in public, in Congress, and on the midterm campaign trail about the gravity of leaving a patently unfit, raving lunatic in the Oval Office.\u201d She asserts that \u201cpro-democracy forces must educate the public, compel legacy media to cover his breakdown as vigorously and consistently as they did Joe Biden\u2019s health after his 2024 debate, and pressure Republicans to remove or at least restrain him.\u201d<\/p>\n

She admits that there are difficulties with this as Democrats are currently the minority in both houses of Congress, but suggests a three-stage plan of action. <\/p>\n

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First, she argues that Democrats should leverage \u201cso-called shadow hearings\u201d like they have to expose other urgent issues, such as ICE brutality, writing, \u201cA serious, sober subcommittee\u2026 with professional staff should conduct methodical public hearings and assemble a comprehensive report documenting Trump\u2019s deterioration. In the laying out the circumstances and frequency of his mental\/emotional breakdowns, the public should receive ample evidence that Trump\u2019s increasingly severe meltdowns are not a function of simple aging or odd personality quirks\u2026 but of dangerous mental and emotional dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next, she says Democrats and any patriotic Republicans should \u201cpresent a series of specific, feasible recommendations, including legislation to compel the release of all presidential medical records and to require independent medical evaluation of presidents and vice presidents. They should spell out rules to implement the 25th Amendment. They also should make clear that once they have subpoena power after the midterms, they will supplement findings by calling witnesses to testify under oath as to his observable behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, she says, lawmakers \u201cmust undertake a focused and robust push to present their findings to the press and the voters. If the president\u2019s emotional and mental competency is not the most compelling issue of the moment, it is hard to imagine what would be. Republican House and Senate candidates need to be put on the spot in every public encounter: Do they think the president is of sound mind? What do they intend to do to, for example, protect nuclear codes? Why shouldn\u2019t the public have full visibility into the health of a president whose conduct has been so obviously aberrant? Democrats should pound away at the issue in floor speeches, media spots, op-eds, and public forums.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubin asserts that the very survival of American democracy depends on a willingness to challenge Trump and his loyalists, and that by following the course she\u2019s laid out, \u201cvoters might well become convinced that extraordinary action is required to defuse the ticking time bomb in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

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