4 reasons impeachment would help us all
David McGrath
Following the Mueller report’s damaging portrayal of President Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Russian investigation, impeachment proceedings are being considered by members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
While some in Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, advise caution, since they assume impeachment would never get past the Republican-held Senate or it may further divide the country, there are four solid reasons for its launch.
1. National harmony: Republicans in the House and Senate could very well be amenable to the idea of impeachment. If Trump were to be legally removed from office, Vice President Mike Pence would assume the top office and would be deemed by Republicans a less risky, more viable presidential candidate in 2020.
Expulsion of Trump would be a win for Republican politicians who would be freed of Trump’s toxic baggage going into their own home state elections. Whereas, Pence would continue with conservative policies with less sleaze, fewer lies and only half the embarrassment. Initially, GOP senators and representatives would have to save face by defending the president. But they could safely let the Democrats lead the effort and then later make the “heartbreaking” decision to vote in favor of Trump’s removal for the good of their constituency and of the entire country.
Trump himself might be open to leaving, deciding, like Richard Nixon, to resign rather than endure humiliating televised impeachment hearings. He’d go out with the expectation that Pence, who has been nothing if not the most loyal of his sycophants, would pardon him. Then he could spend the rest of his days tweeting about his victim-hood.
2. Justice: Americans would be mollified by restoration of the ship of state. The man who lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton but was still elected with help from the electoral college, the Soviet Union and the silence he purchased from two (or more) mistresses would be rightly purged from office.
Impeachment would also send a clear signal that not even the president is above the law and must be held accountable for his multiple criminal efforts to obstruct by ordering his aides to fire key players, shut down the investigation or lie, as detailed in the Mueller report.
3. Salvation: Impeachment would save everyone from having to endure more years of lies from our own leader. Considering that the New York Times has documented more than 8,000 lies by this president in his first two years of office, America would be thereby spared the fatigue and ignominy of 24,000 more.
Additionally, thousands of immigrant children would be spared from imprisonment in cages or separation from their parents, which Trump has threatened anew, for dealing with record numbers seeking asylum. Yes, immigration is a troubling problem, but one which President Pence would presumably seek to handle without torturing children.
A collateral benefit of impeachment would be that our fragile environment will be rescued from a president who laughs at climate change, calling it a hoax, in spite of the fact that 97% of scientists are convinced of man’s culpability for global warming and the need for immediate remedial measures. Imagine if Trump were president when the majority of our scientists warned against the dangers of smoking, asbestos and the insecticide DDT. Citizens, especially Republicans, would have to worry less about in regards to threats to our elections and democratic way of life from Vladimir Putin, whom the FBI has labeled the head of the Russian mafia. We would be safer and more secure were we to impeach the only president in U.S. history who has betrayed his own country by berating our intelligence agencies while cozying up to Russia, both before and after the election, and pushing for such shocking plans, according to the Mueller report, as reversing a U.S. commitment to provide defensive weapons for Ukraine’s fight against Putin.
4. Catharsis: On Feb. 4, when the president of the United States was asked if he ordered White House lawyer Don McGahn to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump looked into our eyes (the TV cameras) and said with a smile, “Fake news, folks.” But rather than fake, it was absolutely true, as confirmed by McGahn’s own testimony transcribed in the Mueller report.
It’s one of the countless, smiling, bald-faced lies he has told, thereby playing you, me and all the rest of American citizens for fools. His impeachment and ejection would right matters, and would right the record with regard to history’s real fool.
David McGrath is an emeritus professor of English at the College of DuPage.
mcgrathd@dupage.edu
It's long past time to clean up the traitorous, treasonous Marxist slime accumulated over decades.
Re: Opinion piece about Trump impeachment by McGrath
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Read this trying not to roll my eyes.
Stunning how uneducated and uninformed this David McGrath sounds.
My dog could have written a better, more polished and factual article.
Low IQ panic.