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Dems Promise An Impeach-O-Rama Next Year
Issues & Insights ^ | 22 Sep, 2026 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 09/24/2026 10:41:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber

After spending months harping on the nation’s affordability “crisis,” Democrats have recently let slip that their real goal, if they get a majority in Congress, will be to impeach as many Trump administration officials as time allows over the next two years.

They will market it as “holding the administration accountable,” but the goal is far more sinister – to purposefully cripple the administration, regardless of the danger it poses to the nation.

In the past few days, articles in the Atlantic and MS NOW – two eminently reliable mouthpieces of the Democratic Party – said the party is considering a raft of impeachments of Trump Cabinet officials, if not Donald Trump himself.

The latter, they point out, is politically difficult. No matter how much Trump haters would love to see him impeached for a third time, it almost certainly won’t lead to his conviction and removal, and could serve only to reenergize Republicans just before a presidential election. (Rep. Al Green, for one, doesn’t care, and has already introduced another impeachment resolution.)

But why not go after Cabinet officials? Among those already on the list are War Secretary Pete Hegseth (Republican Rep. Thomas Massie decided to help Democrats on his way out by filing articles of impeachment against Hegseth), Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The left has also been calling to impeach Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for more than a year.

In other words, Democrats are going to target any Cabinet official who has been effectively defying the left’s policy agenda. And they intend to weaponize impeachment to settle policy differences.

The thinking is that, at the very least, these impeachments will effectively stop work at those agencies. Or they will lead to the departures of these officials. (Democrats point to the fact that the mere threat of impeachment – which would have gone nowhere in the Republican-controlled House – pushed Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi out of their roles.)

But if Democrats gain control of the House, which looks likely, they can – and likely will – proceed full bore to start a raft of impeachment proceedings.

“Some Democrats are open to the idea, as they figure out how to signal to their base that they’re resisting Trump while not inspiring a voter backlash,” is how MS NOW put it.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says only that “We haven’t ruled anything out when it comes to all of the tools available to us to hold people accountable. And we haven’t ruled anything in.”

Only two Cabinet secretaries have been impeached in U.S. history. One was Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876 – after Democrats regained control of the House for the first time since the Civil War. The other was Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, who was (rightly) impeached by House Republicans in 2024 for dereliction of duty in leaving the border wide open while repeatedly lying to Congress that it was secure. Neither resulted in a conviction.

Sen. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, is on record opposing using impeachments for Democrats to show how tough they are against Trump. “We should be focused on affordability, not impeachment,” he said.

But the pent-up desire among the radicals who control the Democratic Party to exact revenge on Trump and destroy his administration is so all-consuming that affordability will be the last thing on their minds.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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To: Clutch Martin

Because the rat party is a criminal organization and cult.


21 posted on 09/24/2026 11:57:28 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Clutch Martin

Because the rat party is a criminal organization and cult.


22 posted on 09/24/2026 11:57:28 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

Trump needs to act more like Pinochet.


23 posted on 09/24/2026 11:59:34 AM PDT by Salman (US out of NATO or we might find ourselves fighting the next world war on the side of the Germans. )
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To: MtnClimber

Beats having to do anything to help Americans.


24 posted on 09/24/2026 12:05:27 PM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: MtnClimber

Good!

It will only help our side.


25 posted on 09/24/2026 12:07:04 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

Are dems going to impeach any marxist muslims?


26 posted on 09/24/2026 12:10:30 PM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: MtnClimber

They will do this to keep fraud out of the news.

You CANNOT hate these people enough.


27 posted on 09/24/2026 12:19:54 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: MtnClimber

THey are the New Axis of Evil which hates God, America, us, and REALITY. They have no intention of fixing anything because making things worse means more dependence on government which gives them more power.


28 posted on 09/24/2026 12:23:18 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: MtnClimber

why isn’t the senate up 24/7 approving 1000’s of Trump judges??!!?!?


29 posted on 09/24/2026 12:33:43 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: MtnClimber

stevie wonder could see this coming


30 posted on 09/24/2026 1:03:04 PM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: MtnClimber

Wise use of tax dollars does not exist. Many of these politicians could not run a hot dog stand. Any skills they have are clouded by Hate Trump Syndromes.


31 posted on 09/24/2026 1:19:21 PM PDT by FreedBird (w)
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To: wafflehouse

They will try to takeout Vance first, Trump cannot run again.


32 posted on 09/24/2026 1:20:33 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

If we let them win, the next two years will be insufferable. VOTE!


33 posted on 09/24/2026 3:22:21 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

Oh well. I decided if the Democrats took over the Congress I’m not watching the news for two years. I refuse to watch them be foolish. I also decided that I am not going to feel sorry for the Republicans due to their lack of getting things done during this last two years. They’re on their own.


34 posted on 09/24/2026 4:52:21 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: MtnClimber

Vance isn’t their guy like Mike 20 Pense was.

They would be absolutely stupid to remove Trump because that would destroy their 2028 and possibly 32 chances.


35 posted on 09/24/2026 6:38:32 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (A sinner saved by Jesus)
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