The old saying is that if you strike at a king, be sure to kill him. In this case, the regime is striking not a king but at the very idea that an elected official can challenge the establishment. This risks revealing just how weak the country’s ruling class really is: if 40 percent of the country remains with Trump through the ordeal of impeachment, that will show that 40 percent is anti-regime — revolutions are made with less. And that 40 percent would be a floor, not a ceiling; a starting point for a future anti-regime movement.
The whole piece is exceptionally well thought out and expressed. Best read posted on FR in quite some time, IMO.
Some here like to micro-dose the Kool-Aid and get all frothed up over what's said on the View and in articles on HuffPost and MSNBC. They are like abused children still looking for validation from their abusive alcoholic Daddy in the wife beater.
But, if you consider this paragraph carefully … Flip it over. I wonder if President Trump realizes that he isn’t necessarily the King here. Perhaps it is more accurate that he (and the deplorables) are the ones who have struck at the King (the establishment, DS, whatever you prefer to call it).
The question I would ask is - has he struck hard enough, and is he willing to deliver the KB? Because if he isn’t, he (and the rest of us) would do well to remember the consequences of failure.
Exceptional. His perspective is what a lot of the voters who stayed home in 2016 are thinking. The Dims do not see the train that is about to run over them.
Impeachment is their last desperate hope to change the outcome of 2016, and it's going to be an epic backfire.