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The left is distrustful of meritocracy. For example, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize before he even took office as President. It didn’t matter what he had done. It mattered who he was. Likewise, after Donald Trump was elected President the first time, Democrats impeached him before he took office, and again after he left office. I don’t recall what the actual impeachment charges were about – it doesn’t matter what he had done. It matters who he is.
Which is why I’m so confused now. Why haven’t Democrats impeached Trump yet? A couple of nights ago a friend of mine let loose with a wild conspiracy theory: “Perhaps Democrats recognize the popularity of Trump and his message, and perhaps Americans have been turned off by the catastrophic impacts of Democrat policies, and perhaps Democrats would be wise not to launch absurd attacks against a popular leader right now.” In his defense, my friend had been drinking rather heavily. I offered to drive him home.
Anyway, presuming that rational thought and learning from experience continue to play no role in Democrat decision-making, I have a few other, more reasonable, theories which might explain why Democrats have not yet impeached Donald Trump:
- Democrat leaders, from Anthony Fauci to George Stephanopoulos, recognize that Americans are becoming increasingly angry about what Democrats have done to them. Perhaps using our legal system to explore political chicanery is not a great idea right now.
- Their first two impeachments of Trump did not have the impact they had hoped. Perhaps Democrats are beginning to suspect that they don’t control messaging like they did in the days of three TV networks. Convincing Joe Rogan to mindlessly repeat the party line may be more difficult than it was to convince Walter Cronkite to do so.
- Perhaps Democrats think that Trump really is pissed off now. After being attacked from every angle for years, he finally recognizes that the US government is not his friend, and more importantly, that the US government is not the friend of the American people, either. Perhaps Democrats think Trump is actually serious about cutting our government down to size, quickly and ruthlessly. And if Trump really understands that, then perhaps it would be better if they stopped screwing with him.
I really don’t know.
Democrats hold 211 seats in the House. They could convince a few Republicans to agree with them, on anything that criticizes Trump. If not, Democrats could launch their own investigation into their own impeachment accusations, use the FBI to help, and count on CNN to carry it. They don’t need Republican support. They could do this if they wanted to.
But they’re not.
I wonder why?
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Other than a few of them, most are still trying to figure out what happened.
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If you are trying to come up for a rational reason that the Dems do anything, you're in deep doo-doo. But if you do figure it out, let me know. Sigh.
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Maybe a few of them aren't crazy.
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Since the Clintons, I have watched Democrats focus on the message. These guys have made a religion of the message. Winning an election is transactional. They communicate a message, check the polls, tweak the message, and when they win they grift their brains out. A lot of others in the Uniparty, too, but most reliably the Democrats. You don't get a nuclear dumpster fire like California with sewage on the sidewalk and a syringe man replacing the milk man from people with any interest in actually governing. Government by criminal defense attorneys looks like this, government by parents raising their families in prudence and love looks nothing like this.
Trump is a mutant to these people. Shot in the face, he rises and pumps his fist in an absolutely never focus grouped message, never tweaked by a committee of PhDs, "Fight, fight, fight." And the crowd responds. Not running for the exits trampling their fellows like the PhD committee would have predicted, but chanting, "USA, USA, USA..." While they scan the crowd for threats. Republicans prepared to pounce.
But the Uniparty has clinched that syringe subscriber vote. And they will tweak the message until they rule all of Metropolis.
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If only Kamala had been lucky enough to be shot in the face. Hey, Suzy, put together a focus group. Hurry, we have less than four years to tweak this message.
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