Is it time to debate civil commitment of Donald Trump?

Keeping the Republic might require it

Imagine if you had someone in your neighborhood or community at 3:00 in the morning who was repeatedly screaming that he wanted to kill as many people as he could. Imagine that this person repeatedly made these threats. You and many others would call the police and this person would be detained and most likely would be civilly committed to an institution of mental health for evaluation and likely for involuntary treatment. In a colloquial sense, you would say this person is deranged, insane, and needs treatment

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In the last several weeks, Donald Trump has made several such threats either on Truth Social or in a variety of interviews he has conducted with media figures. He has vowed, if elected president again, to not only imprison and jail political adversaries and others but has hinted that he would do much worse things to them, which includes possibly death. One has to wonder whether the process of facing the criminal prosecutions, where he is indicted for 91 criminal counts in four different jurisdictions, has caused him to reach a level of mental insanity you where he is now outright making threats against others in this way. Is it time to have a serious conversation about whether or not, just like that person I mentioned in the first paragraph, that Donald Trump should be civilly committed to on institution of mental health for evaluation and involuntary treatment.

It is well known that Donald Trump has severe narcissism in a variety of other mental health issues. But the extreme narcissism is not just all he has. While I am not a psychologist myself, I can see that he has many more issues than that and his behavior and the threats he is making indicate that it is definitely pathological.

Well Donald Trump faces 91 felony charges and four different jurisdictions, I'm not sure a case can be made that he is competent to stand trial. We have to ask at this point whether a serious case can be made that he should be declared unfit to stand trial due to insanity and for that reason his trial should be delayed and he should be confined to an institution of mental health for an indefinite period of time. Someone who is unfit to stand trial in a criminal proceeding is clearly also unfit to stand the rigors of a presidential campaign. His current behavior is proving that point out precisely.

This idea comes full circle with the idea that is being proposed by some that the 14th Amendment's prohibition against engaging in and aiding and supporting insurrection makes Donald Trump ineligible to run for president under the Constitution. Likewise, the Constitution doesn't mention an even more basic qualification to be president or to run for the office, that the individual in question has a basic level of competence in a legal and psychological sense of the word. Someone who may be unfit to stand trial in a criminal proceeding, we can clearly see, it's definitely unfit to be a candidate for public office whether that office is your local city council or the presidency of the United States.

At a most basic level, it is clear someone who is mental to this degree is clearly unfit to be president of our country. Any country where we didn't have tens of millions of people who are members of a cult following of this particular individual, there would be no more than three or four percent of the entire American population that would even think about voting for such an individual as a presidential candidate. Maybe this all raises questions about many of us, whether we are competent to be responsible voters.