Impeachment Now

I will resume writing about the climate crisis next week, but today it feels appropriate to return to the topic of Trump. My last post was about the need to resist Trump’s return to cruelty as a means of politics. I am happy that this resistance has been building and most importantly that the Democrats appear to finally have found the courage to impeach the president. The longrunning prior calculation about how impeachment might affect the election was misguided, as I previously argued in a post in April.

There had been plenty of reasons for impeachment as it has been clear from before the election that Trump fundamentally thinks laws do not apply to him.  His admiration for dictators isn’t some kind of aberration in an otherwise democratic politician. It comes from the core of his personality. Thankfully with the latest texts revealing just how much the phone call with Zelensky was part of a classic quid-pro-quo cooperation with a foreign power, the case for impeachment has become stronger than ever.

The president and his remaining supporters are now retreating to the last refuge of scoundrels which is doubling down. “We are looking for the real killers”-style they are now proclaiming that the whole thing is an investigation into 2016 election interference. Trump himself has taken to calling publicly on other nations including China to join in, apparently on the theory that if it’s public it can’t be corruption.

Time to get on with impeachment. And I look forward to the senate vote which will finally force GOP members there to put their name indelibly in the history books, no longer getting away with equivocating television interviews.