IT STILL DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A CRISIS TO ANYONE RICH ENOUGH TO MATTER

I regularly see social media posts floating this scenario:

This won't happen. Normal people are fed up with Trump, or at least disapproving of the way he's doing his job, but Republican voters are still worshipful. Any Cabinet member who supported Trump's removal from office would be declared an unperson in the Republican Party and would be faced with daily death threats and threats to spouses and family, which might or might not be carried out. So forget it, folks. They're not going to eighty-six the mad king.

You might imagine that rich and powerful people are worried about the chaos Trump is unleashing -- NATO under threat, a "sell America" mood on global markets, and so on. But you always have to remember that the rich can put their money on whichever side of a rising or falling market makes them the most cash. Right now they don't see the potential for a 2008-style crash, and even if it happened, they'd expect to be made whole if they suffered significant losses, and both political parties would agree that that was for the best.

Moral hazards don't get much more hazardous than that. The people in power simply don't believe their world is going to hell in a handbasket, even if ours is. Meanwhile, they're getting their tax cuts. They're getting their regulatory cuts. They might need to bribe Trump to continue doing business more or less as usual, but as long as he's clear about his price, they're willing to pay it. They don't like the tariffs, but the bifurcated, "K-shaped" economy means that there are rich and upper-middle-class people for whom the price increases aren't a problem, so the economy rumbles on.

We're in this mess because it's practically impossible for rich people to stop being rich. They never have reason to fear, so they have no fear of Trump's societal disruptions. The people who run our economy would probably be whispering to their friends at The New York Times and The Atlantic that it was time to start writing about impeachment or 25th Amendment removal if they felt they were at risk now, but they don't. They don't see Trump's madness as anything more than a minor problem. There certainly won't be a "business plot" to overthrow him in a military coup, as there was when Franklin Roosevelt was president. The rich are too well insulated.

It's all on us. Insiders and fat cats won't help us.