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Bullet Point Summary of Article:

Many of the president’s fiercest critics have emerged from within his own party
John McCain said nasty things about him:
naïveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats
Trump puts his self-interest above the good of the country, violating his oath of office
he still owns hotels and resorts (emoluments clause violation>
Demands personal loayalty
On his first full day in office, he ordered his press secretary to lie about the size of his inaugural crowd
Forced out Sessions for allowing Muh Russia
attempted to have the Department of Justice launch criminal probes into his critics and political adversaries (no specifics)
attacked Rosenstein and Mueller publicly
attempted the "muslim ban"
called the press mean names.
He has assailed black protesters (no specifics)
he said America had vote fraud
in sum, an attack on the very foundations of America’s constitutional democracy.
impeachment is for when a president is subverting the rule of law or pursuing his own self-interest
Trump’s actions during his first two years in office clearly meet, and exceed, the criteria to trigger this fail-safe
Impeachment should be used more, we are scared of it.
"unelected bureaucrats who believe the president is acting unlawfully are disregarding his orders, or working to subvert his agenda"
he House of Representatives can no longer dodge its constitutional duty
the last effort to remove an American president from office ended in political fiasco
We can't count on Mueller to provide the ammo:
"No one knows when Mueller’s report will arrive, what form it will take, or what it will say."
"The question that determines whether an act is impeachable, though, is whether it endangers American democracy."
Clinton: NO. Trump: YES.
House Judiciary Committee staff report in 1974: “The purpose of impeachment is not personal punishment; its function is primarily to maintain constitutional government.”
Impeachable offenses: “undermining the integrity of office, disregard of constitutional duties and oath of office, arrogation of power, abuse of the governmental process, adverse impact on the system of government.”
there is little reason to believe the Senate is more likely to remove him than it was to remove Clinton
that may change
question of whether impeachment is justified should not be confused with the question of whether it is likely to succeed in removal
Good Thing: once an impeachment inquiry begins, the president loses control of the public conversation
Good Thing: As Trump fights for his political survival, that struggle will overwhelm other concerns
Good Thing: third benefit is its utility as a tool of discovery and discernment
Andrew Johnson trivia, it was good
Impeachment hearings: Good Thing.
Hosting that debate in Congress yields a fourth benefit: defusing the potential for an explosion of political violence.
Nixon impeachment hearings: Good Thing. Good result.
Nixon resignation ended calls for revolution by left
Impeachment, even if it fails, will doom Trump in 2020
Next couple paras: Impeachment Process explained in moderate detail
Authors admit Treason charge isn't possible
So "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"
lots of history to prove author did research; scholarly!
Johnson lost after being impeached and surviving.
SUMMARY: ORANGE MAN BAD!

Andrew Johnson survived by a one-vote margin, but 10 Southern states had no senators at the time, so it might not have been so close if they had all been represented in the Senate. Johnson was a Democrat elected on the Republican ticket in 1864, and it is not surprising that neither party wanted to nominate him in 1868.

Why weren't the Founding Fathers perspicacious enough to specify that no one could serve as President who owned hotels?