Well, the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump has begun … and the title says it all. The Dems are feverishly working to turn an unimpeachable action into an impeachable one. They are twisting themselves into pretzels in the attempt.
If you just look at the guts of the accusations, there’s nothing to hang your hat on. The evidence doesn’t only lend itself to Schiff’s wild political imagination. The cry of a threat to national security is gibberish. If Trump’s delay of the giving of lethal aid to Ukraine posed such an existential danger to the US, what do you make of Obama’s boycott of the same lethal aid? The infamous phone call isn’t clear cut. It’s as rambling as Trump’s on-stage performances at his rallies. Witnesses say that they “felt” there was a “quid pro quo” as others aren’t quite sure. Besides, even if there was, the Democrats are only mad that there wasn’t Hillary in office to resurrect the IRS as an arm of the Democratic Party. Don’t you get the feeling that this is just a sham?
The impeachment mess is another example of the unrestrained “will to power”. Anything, literally anything, is considered just and proper in the pursuit of power. The Dems have ample company in the 20th century’s long list of utopia-mongers. Beware, you Democrats, the French Revolution’s Jacobin Reign of Terror ended when their guillotine was turned on them.
I wish for a return of calm, adult reason … if that is possible.
RogerG