3 reasons why impeachment of Trump is so dangerous

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I despise the Orange Fascism that is Donald Trump, while also feeling conflicted about him as a President.

We have to care about American politics because our Government answers to theirs.

I want to see his reign end because I think he is an intellectually out of his depth toxic narcissist who is utterly corrupt and selfish.

However, I’m conflicted.

While Trump’s sexism, racism, petty bigotry and mastery of resentment politics are an obscenity to everything progress celebrates, he is an American President who believes in building walls and staying behind them. He isn’t launching wars, he isn’t unleashing the Military Industrial Complex and he isn’t invading countries, he has internalised America’s rage and it’s a relief to have the bully in his own house terrorising his own family for once.

That aside, I still want him gone because while he is allergic to wars, he is still killing far more civilians in the existing wars America is mired in and he’s still stupid enough to be conned into one or accidentally start something by over bluffing, however I think the impeachment scheme is dangerous for 3 reasons.

Politically – Impeachment does wonders for the Democrat base, but it isn’t going to be what they need to convince the mainly white working classes who won Trump the 2016 election that they shouldn’t vote for him again. The Democrats have to push policy like free education and free health care to win those Trump voters over, the Impeachment process which will suck all the oxygen out of the news air won’t allow those policy messages through.

The Mad King Trump – As he starts to get crazier and crazier, like a wounded animal tearing at its own leg to get out of a trap, he is going to become more and more unstable. I’m not suggesting for one second you appease his corruption or excuse it because of the potential destruction he’ll cause, but you simply must factor in the really dangerous things a personality as dysfunctional as this one could generate when cornered like this.

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Republican backlash – I’m no expert on American culture or politics, but what I do know is that they take their Democracy incredibly seriously. It is a thing of immense pride for Americans that one of their own can rise to become President based on the popular will of the people. If you remove a President, you denounce the will of the people and in this case, those people are Trump people. Republicans have been swamped by Trump voters, people who were previously disconnected from politics by economic resentment and cultural unease now swell the Republican ranks in a way Republicans can’t ignore. If Trump was removed from Office the backlash by Republicans would border on out right civil war.

Impeachment risks strangling off the ability to message those Trump voters you need to swing back to Democrats, it risks an increasingly deranged President and it risks a level of social upheaval that could easily turn politically violent.

The best way to defeat Trump is at the ballot box because the Executive removing him against the will of the people is a trauma I don’t think America is strong enough to endure, especially after 3 years of Trumps damaging Presidency.

15 COMMENTS

  1. What the Democrats are doing in America is destroying the mirage of democracy. Trump has his shortcomings no doubt. But the characteristic that is unacceptable to the Democrat establishment and to much of the Republicans as well is that he has ideas of his own. That is unusual and unacceptable in an American president. They are supposed to do and say what they are told , not try to interfere with the running of the country or the world. That is the proper job of the pentagon and the spy agencies on behalf of those with the money. The president, even if he is Donald Trump, is the elected leader of the people. The office deserves being treated with a respect for the people who elected him that the Democrats are destroying. For all future presidents as well as Trump.
    D J S

  2. The Democrats have to push policy like free education and free health care to win those Trump voters over. Maybe i am missing something here Martyn but apart from Bernie and possibly Tulsi, which democrats are standing for the above?

  3. US writer Masha Gessen wrote, “We can’t save the planet and keep Trump; we can’t applaud Thunberg and tolerate the Presidency that will doom her generation to a life on an uninhabitable planet. It’s one or the other.” Full article here.

    • I don’t think dumping Trump will save the world from climate change. There are a few other problems to solve as well.
      D J S

      • DJS … Has twisted what was said.
        He appears to be okay with keeping an arsonist as the head of the fire department. Meanwhile the fires burn out of control.

      • This <a href="from CNN in September:
        “From promising to leave the landmark Paris climate accord to relaxing restrictions on power plant emissions, Trump has attempted to remove many of the guardrails installed by the Obama administration to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases.

        “These rollbacks come at a critical time. Earth just endured its hottest month on record, and Greenland’s massive ice sheet is melting an alarming rate.

        “Last fall, the world’s top climate scientists warned that we have barely more than a decade to drastically cut global carbon emissions, to avoid facing the worst consequences of the climate crisis — droughts, wildfires and food shortages impacting hundreds of millions of people.

        “Regardless of what happens in the 2020 presidential election, critics say Trump has already cemented an environmental legacy that will be felt by generations to come.

        “He is locking in permanent, irreversible damage to our environment through his irresponsible environmental policies, including his efforts to block progress on climate change,” said Dr. Michael E. Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University and the director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center.

        “Once we go beyond key tipping points — the melting of the major ice sheets — there is no going back.”

        Specifics of some of his enacted climate policy rollbacks are at the link.

      • Here is a referenced record of Trump’s attacks on the environment, on our planet’s climate, and thereby ultimately on life itself. (Last updated in May this year.)

  4. Actually, even though he may be a climate change denier, Trump’s policies may help control climate change more than the endless anguished and ineffectual hand wringing of the liberal left.
    Unrestricted international trade and mass migration are major factors in increased carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuel use. If Trump puts the brakes on global trade and migration, he will significantly slow the rate of climate change.

  5. “you simply must factor in the really dangerous things a personality as dysfunctional as this one could generate when cornered like this.”

    Um, and that’s an argument for keeping him in office??

    A similar argument has at times been made for ignoring domestic violence, for example. It’s that overcautious response based on fear that something worse could happen if any significant move were made. And in DV situations, children and vulnerable partners end up permanently damaged, if not dead.

  6. “If Trump was removed from Office the backlash by Republicans would border on out right civil war.”

    Yet, I have read where there are some among the Repubs who are privately treating the present situation similarly to the last days of Reagan in office, as his dementia progressed.

  7. An article in Washington Post today discusses political considerations and ramifications of an impeachment, for the Republicans, at this link.

    Intro: “A torrent of impeachment developments has triggered a reckoning in the Republican Party, paralyzing many of its officeholders as they weigh their political futures, legacies and, ultimately, their allegiance to a president who has held them captive.

    “President Trump’s efforts to pressure a foreign power to target a domestic political rival have driven his party into a bunker, with lawmakers bracing for an extended battle led by a general whose orders are often confusing and contradictory.”

  8. I agree.

    I thought Trump winning was the second worst result. We’d quite possibly be at war with Russia if Hillary had won. I like the fact that he was quite obviously the candidate that the ruling elites least wanted in power (out of the two) which is something. Those are the people (in both party ‘choices’) that are trying to get rid of him.

    I just wish that progressives in America would stop voting Democrat and start voting for independents that actually care about the voters. Sure it would take 4 ‘wated’ elections to have an effect, but eventually the Democrats would have to take notice or cease to exist. The ruling classes want two parties in order to minimize the number of people they have to pretend to listen to.

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