A week ago I awoke with a series of thoughts that probably came through the Holy ghost.  I don’t think that they were thoughts that I’d have generated on my own.

The thoughts centered around the current frenzy in the nation that President Trump needs to be impeached.  The Democrats have been talking impeachment from the moment of his election three years ago.  He won the election with a majority of the electoral votes even though a majority of citizens’ votes went to his opponent.  The cries for impeachment dramatically intensified two weeks ago when it was revealed that the president had a telephone conversation with the president of Ukraine in which pressure was put on Ukraine to investigate that country’s dealings with Trump’s expected rival in the upcoming 2020 election.

President Trump is an immoral, egotistical man for whom I have little respect.  I didn’t vote for him.  Neither did I vote for his opponent.  The Democrats are so far out in left field that I’m amazed that their policies have so many supporters.  Trump, on the other hand, at least enacts policies which I support.

Trump will be impeached, meaning that a majority of the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives will vote to have his case tried before the Senate.  It will be up to the Senate to either remove him from office or to leave him there.  Removal would require a 2/3 vote.  There is no way that 67 senators would vote to remove him from office, since a majority of the 100 are Republican.

So the things that are going to happen are these:

1. The House of Representatives will approve articles of impeachment.
2. A majority of the Senate will vote in favor of removing the president from office, but the vote won’t get the required 2/3.
3. The Democrats will cry foul.  They will point out that a majority of the American people didn’t want him as president in the first place, and that a majority now wants him removed.
4. The problem in both cases, the Democrats will say, is the Constitution.  It is outdated.  The electoral college needs to be abolished, and the Constitution is not suited to govern our modern nation.  (Marjorie points out that they’re right on that point.  John Adams said in 1798 that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”)
5. The Democrats will lead a revolt against the Constitution.  They will want it abolished or rewritten.
6. This will bring about Joseph Smith’s prophecy that “the time would come when the Constitution would hang, as it were, by a thread, and at that time this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction.”  Ezra Taft Benson quoted this in general conference in October 1961, and added this:  “It is my conviction that the elders of Israel, widely spread over the nation, will at that crucial time successfully rally the righteous of our country and provide the necessary balance of strength to save the institutions of constitutional government.”
7. I believe that this current situation is going to bring on the prophesied Constitutional crisis, which crisis is one of the signs which is to precede the Lord’s second coming
8. I would expect the resulting upheaval to be accompanied by fulfillment of another prophecy, that of the remnants of Jacob rising up and vexing the Gentiles “with a sore vexation.”  (D&C 87:5.  See also 3 Nephi 16:10-15, 20:15-17, 21:12-23, Mormon 5:22-24, Micah 5:8-14).  Immigration (which is centered on the remnants of Lehi) is currently a hotbed of contention.  The Democrats and the Republicans are already at war over the issue.  All that’s left to have happen is for the remnants of Lehi themselves, who are scattered among us, to rise up and vex the nation.