Impeachment is the culminating response to Trump’s relentless authoritarian impulses
President Trump Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images On the evening of Friday, September 13, House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff issued a terse, inscrutable statement that a whistle-blower within the intelligence community had identified an abuse of some kind yet had been prevented from transmitting the complaint to Congress. Eleven days later, the House of Representatives has decided to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
It cannot be said that Democrats are doing this for political gain. Polls have consistently shown impeachment to be a losing proposition, and the House Democrats from moderate and conservative districts are taking their political lives into their hands. Yet there is reason to believe the politics may change.
The prospect that Republicans will continue to pursue the inquiry — let alone eventually vote to remove Trump from office — are remote. But the mere fact of their cooperation bodes well for its political fate. It was McConnell who once frankly explained his calculation that loud and total partisanship signaled an illegitimate process to the public, while bipartisan support would make people believe “differences have been worked out and there’s a broad agreement that that’s the way forward.
His extortion of Ukraine’s government is perfectly in keeping with his stated belief that the powers of government can and should be put at the president’s personal disposal. He has used his powers to attack critics in the bureaucracy, ginning up weak or spurious investigations of Department of Justice figures who investigated him to punish independent news-media owners and profit from office.
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