Friends, the Democrats will use every trick in the book to try to get their way, but lately they may have gone back to the impeachment well one too many times. Democrats running for President jumped all over the recent (bogus)
New York Times story about yet another unsubstantiated allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. These Dems were happy to throw Kavanaugh under the bus long before all the facts had come in -- they even suggested that he should be impeached for "lying". (Remember, all Republicans "lie" constantly, according to the Left. Are you a conservative? Did you open your mouth today? Then you're a liar!) My latest article tackles this outrage, and it suggests that misuse of the impeachment process could be more than just a toxic talking point -- it could be a threat to our way of life.
Democrats' Impeachment Obsession is
a Danger to Democracy
Sad to say, but
Tom Steyer, even though he's an out-of-touch and unlikable
billionaire, may be the most representative face of the Democratic
Party these days. That's because, almost since the day President
Trump won the 2016 election, Steyer has been bawling like a toddler
and insisting that Trump's prompt removal from office, via
impeachment, is a moral and political imperative.
Steyer
and his “Need to Impeach” movement offer a laundry
list of reasons
why Trump should be impeached, from alleged obstruction of justice to
violations of the emoluments clause, Russian collusion, racism and
bigotry, recklessness, “persecution” of political opponents and
the free press, mistreatment of “immigrants”, and paying hush
money to Stormy Daniels.
Or, to put it
another way, Steyer's rationale for impeachment is so diffuse that
it's utterly incoherent. Steyer presumably is bargaining that, if he
throws everything but the kitchen sink at Trump, one of these charges
— it doesn't much matter which one — will stick, and Trump will
go down like a ton of bricks.
Tom
Steyer, for all his malevolent fury, is just a private citizen,
albeit one who has plowed hundreds of millions of dollars of his own
money into a campaign to subvert American democracy. What's more
worrying is that Steyer's no-stone-left-unturned approach to
impeaching President Trump now seems to be the official
strategy of the House Judiciary Committee
under Chairman Jerrold Nadler. Nadler has made it clear that any
anti-Trump narrative, no matter how obscure, laughable, or deficient
in terms of evidence, is potentially acceptable as a pretext for
impeachment. Again, he doesn't much care why
Trump is impeached, just so long as he is.
Now, though,
Democrats are taking their impeachment obsession to the next level.
Brimming with enthusiasm for the removal of President Trump from
office, they are beginning to apply their convoluted impeachment
“logic” to other political enemies. Their latest target is Brett
Kavanaugh, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Even before
Kavanaugh was confirmed in 2018, there were whispers among Democrats
that, if this alleged abuser of women should be added to the nation's
highest court, Congress would be entirely justified in impeaching and
removing him. Never mind that the charges made against Kavanaugh were
unsubstantiated — in fact, they were specifically rejected as
untrue by many of the people who were present at the time of the
alleged offense. No matter. The new standard of proof — for
Republicans and conservatives only — is that, if someone says you
did something wrong, you assuredly did. Moreover, if you deny it, or
if you defend your honor publicly, you are merely compounding your
sins with lies (the definition of “lies” being “that which
Democrats and liberals do not wish to hear”).
The suggestion
last year that Kavanaugh should be impeached because of Christine
Blasey Ford's politically-motivated and uncorroborated accusations
was outrageous, given the hallowed principle of American justice that
we are all innocent until proven guilty. Now, though, prominent
Democrats are doubling down.
Presidential
candidates Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, among
others, are calling
for Kavanaugh's impeachment anew,
because a biased news story appeared in the New
York Times
alleging another incident in which Kavanaugh is supposed to have
mistreated a young woman. The Times
neglected to mention that the woman in question has no recollection
of her own mistreatment.
The truth or falsehood of the latest accusations against Kavanaugh
are, of course, irrelevant to his tormentors. They know only two
things about Kavanaugh for certain: that he is a bad man in the eyes
of feminists, who have made him a poster boy for sexual assault,
despite the fact that he has never been charged with or convicted of
any crime, including crimes against women; and that he is a bad
Supreme Court Justice in the eyes of progressives, who believe that
the real function of the court is to mandate nationwide obedience to
the agenda of the Left, whenever that agenda cannot be, for practical
reasons, advanced through legislation or executive action instead.
The moral of the story seems to be this: in the banana republic or
pseudo-democracy that leftists are trying to create, impeachment,
like every other legal and constitutional tradition, exists for one
reason only: to help liberals crush their enemies and conquer power.
In other words, leftists want to transform impeachment from a tool to
punish abuses of power into a tool to facilitate such abuses, and in
effect to criminalize dissent.
The miracle, then, is that no one has yet called for the impeachment
of Neil Gorsuch, or Mitch McConnell, or hundreds of other Republican
and conservative judges and office holders. For they too are guilty
of the only real crime that the modern Left recognizes: standing in
its way.
Heck,
from the liberal perspective, why stop there? Why not cut to the
chase and impeach GOP voters
too? After all, are not the 63 million Americans who put Trump in
office ultimately responsible for the “high crimes and
misdemeanors” that he commits on an hourly basis? Surely therefore
the voters should share in his condemnation and his punishment.
Mark
my words: it is only a matter of time before the impeachment dragnet
is widened. The knives are already out for President Trump and Judge
Kavanaugh, but liberals won't be satisfied until all
of their enemies have been driven from the halls of power, and
ultimately from politics itself.
Then, one assumes, the leftists will turn on each other, at which
point some of them will rediscover the beauty of the phrase “innocent
until proven guilty”...
But that's not all! Check out this article, if you have the time. It discusses the spread of leftist "ethnic studies" classes in American high schools. Political indoctrination isn't just for higher ed anymore. Oh no!
