Barring impeachment for Russia crimes, that is.

I just don't see it.

I mean, it wasn't a budget matter but a social policy one.... thus the budget reconciliation process should not have applied?

even to the point of pardoning himself.

I don't think you'll have to guess what that amounts to.... a dictatorship.

Don't like a particular political rival? Have him killed... you won't even have to be secretive about it... just pardon yourself and even brag about it if you like. And stay in office, too, while you're at it because if you threaten enough people with the same fate they probably won't have the stomach to impeach you.

Just what James Madison would have wanted!