Ruling Class Held Hostage by Trump’s Impeachment

Every year 3 million visitors make the pilgrimage to Ellis Island. It is estimated nearly forty percent of all Americans can trace their ancestors to the 20 million immigrants that were processed through New York and Ellis Island from 1892 to 1954. These prospective citizens were determined to escape authoritarianism, soul grinding poverty, war and its aftermath, immutable class structures as well as religious and ethnic persecution.

Once here they would immerse themselves in learning English and the nation’s founding documents in preparation for the most gut wrenching (passing the oral citizenship test) and emotional (the swearing in ceremony) day in their lives. Thanks to their life experience and their determination to be citizens of the only nation in the history of mankind to be founded on the principle that all men are created equal, these newly minted Americans were among the most loyal and most well-versed in the nation’s founding.

What would the vast majority of those that willingly left everything behind to travel for up to three weeks, oftentimes across a storm-tossed ocean and relegated to the unsanitary and wretched conditions in steerage, think of the impeachment of Donald Trump?

Nearly all of the nations whence these immigrants came were governed by an immutable class structure. At the apex of this rigid class pyramid was either a monarchy and its attendant birthright nobility or a dictatorship and its coercive administrative hierarchy or a communist oligarchy and its implacable bureaucracy. Class mobility was at the whim and discretion of the autocrat or the oligarchy.

“In reality, impeachment, endless investigations, fabrications and the constant vilification of Donald Trump are aimed at intimidating the nameless and unwashed masses who had the temerity and insolence to vote against the wishes of the ruling class.”

This sentence makes it clear that a better title would have been something like “Ruling Class Holds Deplorables Hostage with Trump’s Impeachment.”

“those that willingly left everything behind to travel for up to three weeks”

I bet from door to door they traveled a hell of a lot longer than three weeks normally. You had to leave the village. Make your way to a port. And ships were not like Southwest airlines leaving every 45 minutes. You might wait a week or even two for your ship. I bet a month and a half was average...if everything went right. And that was to arrive at Ellis Island. Then more waiting began.

The election of Donald Trump in 2016 was an act of defiance and a rebellion by the deplorables and a devastating blow to the ruling elites. With his election, President Trump began the process of a Republican Party divorce from the establishment -- which is now well underway.

Thus, the ruling class’s political hegemony is severely threatened. They cannot achieve their endgame without de facto control of both parties. Which is why Donald Trump may well be the most influential President in modern American history.

I think you could see both the election of Donald Trump and Barak Obama as indications that the voting public has had their fill of the Ruling Elite.

Both men were departures from the typical rank and file groomed candidates of the party.

Obama was a first term Senator from the Chicago machine but was also much farther Left than the Democratic Party as a whole. A decade earlier Obama would have been seen as too far Left to gain widespread support even in the Democrat Party. And he had little time to build a political machine or develop political allies in the national party.

But Obama’s saving grace was he was a candidate of an unusual complexion which had the effect of shielding him from a great deal of criticism that would be par for the course in a Presidential election.

Don Jon of Manhattan was direct result of the previous two Republican candidates of president. Trump came out of his corner jabbing and counter punching. This was a refreshing change for conservative Republicans that had enough of the soft sensitive touch of Romney and McCain who had left their most effective ammunition against Obama in the box.

Trump was also willing to champion causes that the establishment Republicans would not such as board walls and stricter enforcement of immigration laws.

Both Obama Democrats and Trump Republicans are tired of the status quo party elite. I don’t think there is any going back for either party.

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