Panting for impeachment
LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson
I think it is safe to say the left has had its knickers in a Gordian knot since Donald Trump accomplished one of history’s greatest political upsets with his defeat of Hillary Clinton, the self-entitled princess of liberal politics.
What to do?
It seems Trump intends to have a presidency despite the unhappy left’s determination to discredit, disclaim and denounce his legitimacy as prompted by Clinton’s inability to conquer a majority of states or electoral votes. The new president tromps on, thereby setting the left’s britches on fire.
The public’s perception of political insignificance has created terror regarding survival for lefties. Terror prompts the death of rationality as demonstrated by an expanding number of reactive proclamations. After months of hand-wringing over Trump’s alleged Russia connection, there is yet to be an ounce of proof of intent or accomplishment.
Endless repetition, however, can create doubt, and the need for evidence is unnecessary for those seeking conspiracy. Indeed, for the humorless left, nothing is juicier than innuendo incited by singularity of purpose, which is Trump’s failure.
The left’s desperation was demonstrated recently in a column by Froma Harrop, liberal denunciator, entitled “Can We Get Our Democracy Back?” Well, folks, we had an election, a clear indication democracy is still breathing. Besides, liberals only mention the health of democracy when they are in the minority. The bend was to socialism during the Obama years when praises of democracy were harder to find than Claire McCaskill in Northwest Missouri.
Said Harrop in her column: ”Boy, wouldn’t it be great to get that mentally unstable thug out of the Oval Office?…the time has passed for treating the presidency of Donald Trump as anything less than a freaky aberration of our democratic norms.”
Notably missing from those remarks are the love and tolerance so easily espoused by liberals when they want something.
Calling Trump a thug goes beyond hate-filled hyperbole. Calling Trump’s election ”…a freaky aberration of our democratic norms,” suggests his election was an accident, that voters couldn’t possibly have meant to support someone other than a wondrous liberal wrapped tightly in social justice.
Within those few words, one can identify the seed of Harrop’s intent: only a liberal president can be legitimate; anything else is abnormal. Now, fellow liberals postulate, Americans across the country are slapping their foreheads and saying, “I could’ve had a Hillary!”
What are we to do to correct our great national mistake? Mouth behind hand, Harrop whispers the suggestion everyone knows is coming: ”Impeachment is the constitutionally sanctioned way to get rid of him….Wait until Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, for the midterm elections and hope they deliver a Democratic House majority. Then impeachment proceedings may commence.”
Harrop continues: “Of course, 18 months seems like a long wait for those seeing a nation in peril. This is a president engaged in abuse of power, likely obstruction of justice and possible collusion with foreign adversaries.”
A nation in peril? In peril of what? Too many jobs? Tax cuts? Stable sources of energy? Better trade deals? Sudden respect from allies?
In the phrase “likely abuse of power,” the key word is “likely.” In the phrase “possible collusion with foreign adversaries,” the key word is “possible.” Cautious wording underscores lack of proof. That means Harrop’s position is based on innuendo, rumor and wishful thinking.
As is indicative of leftist argument, Harrop offers no clear reasons or evidence for impeachment, which has become the catch-all solution to the Trump dilemma, the crisis being Trump doesn’t represent the left exclusively.
Trump, remember, was chosen by the people, not the liberal establishment. That fact is unacceptable to the politically hysterical.
We will hear impeachment drummed continuously over the months leading to election 2018. Impeachment itself is baseless, but it is what the left is hanging its hopes on for House and Senate. Impeachment yap equals a spreading stain on Trump’s reelection probability two years later.
Understand, all that matters to the left is its socialist prescription. There will be no help for this president whom it despises to the point of instability.
That also means no help for America in any cooperative sense.
Larry W. Anderson is a retired educator, author and Bearcat.
