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The Hatred that Fuels Impeachment
American Greatness ^ | 11/24/2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/25/2019 6:52:06 AM PST by Pollard

Neither the NeverTrump Right nor the Progressive Left has yet offered a coherent defense of their de facto, three-year-long singular effort to delegitimize and ultimately remove Trump from office before the 2020 election.

We are now in the midst of a systematic effort to impeach a president on the basis of a thought crime. Trump’s purported quid pro quo sin was issuing a temporary hold on military assistance to Ukraine that supposedly transcended legitimate worries about rampant corruption—to include specifically investigating the suspicious behavior of a corrupt Ukrainian oil company and the compromised relationship of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son around it.

The anti-Trump writ is that it is impeachable even to delay to the Ukrainians lethal military assistance while citing the need to investigate the corruption of Ukrainians, including the career of Hunter Biden, whose father, the former vice president and “point man” on Ukraine, is now running for president.

Supposedly irrelevant to this inquiry is the prior policy of denying military aid to Ukraine, intervening in Ukrainian politics to fire a prosecutor by threatening a cutoff of even nonmilitary aid, and ignoring that the vice president’s son served as a lucrative functionary with a corrupt Ukrainian company while his father was adjudicating U.S. aid to Ukraine.

So why this disconnect? The reason is not “Ukraine,” merely the latest iteration in a long series of efforts, but rather existential hatred.

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1 posted on 11/25/2019 6:52:06 AM PST by Pollard
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In a nutshell? Trump is draining The Swamp, and The Swamp is panicking.

Remember the Clinton came to power in the 1990s. Who knows just how deep the corruption and the rot goes after 30 year?


2 posted on 11/25/2019 6:54:05 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Pollard

I think the answer is simple: Godlessness. The Left is Godless, and that leaves them constantly on shifting sands. We can expect them to always be agitated and angry, similar to Muslims.


3 posted on 11/25/2019 6:55:28 AM PST by Kharis13
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To: Pollard

VDH is one of those people I would hope to meet and talk to before I die.


4 posted on 11/25/2019 6:56:50 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Pollard

For the Deep State it boils down to two things. First is hatred for the president who is taking their globalist DC “playground” away from them, and second is their intense fear this president will expose their criminal and treasonous activities they’ve committed against this country!


5 posted on 11/25/2019 6:59:03 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: Pollard

Hatred has nothing to do with it.

This is all about corrupt individuals who do not want to go to prison.


6 posted on 11/25/2019 6:59:41 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: dowcaet

I should say fully expose all of their bad deeds. President Trump has awakened many Americans to the existence of the Deep State and is slowly exposing them!


7 posted on 11/25/2019 7:01:03 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: Pollard

The Commies need to feel the hatred that I hold for them.


8 posted on 11/25/2019 7:01:05 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat..... & ERIC CIARAMELLA")
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To: Kickass Conservative
I have met VDH twice, both times long ago before he became famous for his political writings (and before most or all of his scholarly books were published).

His cousin and namesake and my father were both involved in the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill in 1945 as US Marines, but they were in different companies so never would have met. His cousin was killed in the battle. My father was wounded but survived.

9 posted on 11/25/2019 7:01:53 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kickass Conservative
It started with the first George Bush...Ronald Reagans biggest mistake..

Probably more of a globalist than Bill Clinton..Hillary a different story

10 posted on 11/25/2019 7:01:57 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Kickass Conservative

‘VDH is one of those people I would hope to meet and talk to before I die.’

I would buy lunch for the 3 of us if I could be there!


11 posted on 11/25/2019 7:02:37 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nanzi Pelosi Thinks/Says Americans Are Too STUPID To Elect Their President! Time for #DCEXIT!)
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To: Pollard

We weren’t supposed to be able to elect a President who would secure the borders and enforce the laws.
Both parties have been pursuing a bipartisan policy of non-enforcement that is fundamentally changing the country against the will of the citizens.
The GOP had always put up amnesty candidate and were going to again had Donald Trump not been moved by Divine Providence to set aside his career and save this country from the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).
We are already 30 million people down that road.


12 posted on 11/25/2019 7:03:54 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Pollard

A president who loves the country, who knows who its enemies are and tries to stop them, who wants Blacks to get jobs and not be dependent, and he’s the one who receives so much hate.


13 posted on 11/25/2019 7:03:56 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Pollard

*BUMP*


14 posted on 11/25/2019 7:08:56 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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Neither the NeverTrump Right …
Misnomer. Never-Trump Republicans invariably hold left-wing views and support left-wing policies.
“We must hate. Hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.”

— Lenin

“It is impossible to defeat an enemy without having learned to hate him heart and soul.”

— Stalin

“We hate Christians and Christianity. Even the best of them must be considered our worst enemies. They teach love of one’s neighbor and mercy, which is against our principles. Christian love is an impediment to the development of the revolution. Down with ‘love of our neighbor’—what we want is hatred. We must know how to hate. Only then shall we conquer the universe.”

— Anatoly Lunacharsky, first USSR education commissar

“Hatred fosters vigilance and an uncompromising attitude toward the enemy, and leads to the destruction of everything that prevents Soviet peoples from building a happy life. The teaching of hatred for the enemies of the toilers enriches the conception of Socialist humanism, by distinguishing it from sugary and hypocritical ‘philanthropy’.”

— Small Soviet Encyclopedia (Moscow, 1947, vol. XI, p. 1045)
The hatred is ideological to the core. And the Democrats have been at it for decades, most likely far longer than a century.
15 posted on 11/25/2019 7:09:20 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Eddie01

Actually, it’s the corrupt individuals who are orchestrating the hatred.


16 posted on 11/25/2019 7:09:37 AM PST by Loud Mime ("Now, go and do your duty before darkness covers the earth." Michael Uhlmann (1939 - 2019))
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To: Eddie01

It’s actually both.


17 posted on 11/25/2019 7:10:26 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Loud Mime

I’ve wondered why women marry prison inmates.

It takes that kind of stupid to hate someone on command.


18 posted on 11/25/2019 7:12:16 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Pollard

It is not an impeachment. It is a coup to get rid of a duly and legally elected President that they did not approve .


19 posted on 11/25/2019 7:15:05 AM PST by sport
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To: Pollard

Trump has angered the globalist establishment masters that fund and control most Dems and Republicans in Congress and the entire political establishment.


20 posted on 11/25/2019 7:17:39 AM PST by circlecity
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