Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, December 29, 2019

What Impeachment Is All About

Donald Trump will not be removed from office via the impeachment office, because the GOP has become a cult of personality.

However, that's not really the point of impeachment. This is. People who aren't political junkies aren't following this very closely.  They don't know who Lev Parnas or Fiona Hill are. But it's beginning to sink in that Trump was impeached, even if they aren't clear on what impeachment actually is. They know he's volatile and unpredictable.  (And impeachment and the ego wound it provokes will only make him more erratic.)

The point has always been to make Trump sink below 40% approval ratings.  He can't win at those levels.  That's why having his tax returns presumably being released in June is better than having them released now. Yes, the tax returns could provoke additional impeachment charges, but that won't matter. You aren't getting 67 votes in the Senate.  Period.

You keep reinforcing how corrupt this MF is until people vote for an old shoe just to make the chaos go away.

No comments: