(MENAFNEditorial) Online PR News 17-August-2017 Charlottesville, VA Author of post-apocalyptic fiction, Keith Taylor, argues in his latest novel, , that the only way for the United States to survive as a nation in the event of a large scale destabilizing event (a zombie pandemic, extreme climate change or a widespread natural disaster) would be to impeach President Donald Trump at the earliest opportunity.
Taylor claims that the only hope in the event of catastrophe would be to replace the sitting President with a hard-nosed pragmatist who cared little for public approval, freeing him or her to make the tough choices necessary to save the nation. He argues that Trump's need to pander to his base would lead to the destruction of the US, a fault that has only this month seen the President shy away from denouncing far right protesters in Charlottesville, VA.
"The problem is political rather than practical," Taylor argues. "Impeachment proceedings could begin tomorrow with the right political will, though Congressmen have a long history of cowardice when it comes to facing up to difficult problems, especially when those problems come from within their own party." He goes on, "Gerald Ford once said that 'an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history', so the question is this: how bleak would the outlook for the United States have to be for a majority of the House to decide it was in their interests to roll the dice on a new leader?"
While Taylor cautions against rash decisions, he's clear on one thing. "It goes without saying that were zombies to appear in the United States tomorrow we'd need to kick President Trump off the White House premises by the end of the week."
Keith Taylor is the bestselling author of This is the Way the World Ends: An Oral History of the Zombie War, an homage to Max Brooks' classic World War Z, and the series of post-apocalyptic novels. He lives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in the hope that should humanity devolve into a global war he'd survive due to the fact that nobody can find Mongolia on a map.
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