THE GREAT IMPEACHMENT MIDWAY LEAVES TOWN

1/31/20

It looks as though the Democrats’ excellent impeachment adventure will come a cropper this afternoon or shortly thereafter.   Yours truly has several thoughts on this whole circus.

What will remain firmly implanted in the voters’ minds, as I mentioned in my 1/9/20 post (PRESIDENT TRUMP CANNOT WIN, BUT THE DEMOCRATS CAN LOSE, IN 2020) is not that Donald Trump is a proverbial bull in a China shop who often seems to have no idea what he is doing; that isn’t news.   What came out of this impeachment fiasco that was not widely known before it was that Joe Biden’s son was on the payroll of a Ukraine natural gas firm and had even less of a sense of what he was doing in that role than does Mr. Trump…and that Joe Biden thought that was just fine and dandy.   (“My son did nothing wrong.”)   Believe me…the Trump people will make sure that l’affaire Biden becomes the most salient outcome of this kangaroo court.

More importantly, though, the outcome of this whole attempt at a show trial was foreordained because it was a political tool from the beginning.   If we are to derive anything from this blabfest, it is that impeachment, and other sorts of related ethical and legal inquiries, are now a tool of politics and nearly purely so.   Whether Mr. Trump did commit an impeachable offense of sufficient import to remove him from office is inconsequential in such an environment.   What matter to both parties is the politics, and the politics here surely favor the GOP, if only because they control the Senate and the Senate gets to make the final determination.

If you have any doubt that this whole monkey trial (apologies to Clarence Darrow) was only about politics, note that yesterday the Democrats and their media sidekicks trotted out yet another woman who claims that Mr. Trump raped her in the ‘90s.   Before everyone gets excited and starts tossing around accusations of misogyny in yet another manifestation of the American practice of substituting emoting for thinking, yours truly is not by any means discounting the severity of these charges.   If indeed Mr. Trump raped this woman, not only should nobody vote for Mr. Trump in 2020, but he should be tried, convicted, and spend just about all of the rest of his life in prison.   (It’s a shame we often have to state something so obvious, but, again, in this politicized world that substitutes whoop-whoop for thought, we have no choice.)   All that having been written, if these charges are not true, and even if they are, one has to question the timing of the charges.   Is it a coincidence that they came out just as it became apparent that Mr. Trump is going to win his impeachment battle in the Senate?   The timing of this latest salvo against Mr. Trump provides evidence for the charge that the Democrats and their fellow travelers in the nation’s media will never stop because THEY JUST CAN’T GET OVER THE FACT THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SUCH CONTEMPT FOR THE POLITICAL AND MEDIA ESTABLISHMENTS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT THEY CHOSE A CARNIVAL BARKER LIKE MR. TRUMP OVER THE ESTABLISHMENT’S CANDIDATE…AND CANDIDATES.   Is it surprising that Mr. Trump continues to figuratively bite the heads off chickens just to rub it in the face of the Washington crowd that he defeated?   That is what the electorate called for him to do in 2016.

People who, despite the fiction that they represent some state and/or district that they forgot long ago, live and work in Washington and feel entitled to run the country therefrom, never learn.  The American people continue to seethe with anger at the alternating contempt and condescension that emanates from the Imperial City.   The Democrats, and most Republicans, for that matter, can’t understand why the rubes out there in fly-over country don’t realize that they are being given a gift of the manifest wisdom of the Washington types who have deigned to rule over them.  So the Dems and their media henchmen continue their childish hissy-fits, their endless charges of ethical transgressions (many of which are well founded), culminating in this blatant piece of political gamesmanship called an impeachment trial.   But don’t think for a minute it will end there.   These latest rape charges are just the latest figurative toss of, er, stuff at the wall in a desperate attempt to get something to stick.  

The political establishment, and especially the Democratic and media components of that establishment, refuses to accept the fact that they lost the election to the likes of the often crude, usually rude, and rarely in touch with the substance of what he is talking about Donald Trump.   They are incapable of a sober assessment of their attitudes and their actions, an assessment that would, of necessity, involve developing some measure of humility and an appreciation for the thoughts of people one supposes Washington types deem incapable of serious thought.    The Washington crowd’s inability to understand how much they have ticked off the American people has resulted in a nearly ludicrous backlash that involved the people’s responding to their lack of humility by electing a man who is the very antithesis of humility and understanding.   It’s as if the American people were saying “Damn it, listen to us and do a few things that are good for us, not for you”…and were met by Washington’s best impersonation of Marie Antoinette.    And, as this constant caterwauling in the capital shows, the Dems’ ears have grown yet another impermeable coating of tin.

It’s enough to induce even reasonable, thinking people to hold their noses and vote for Mr. Trump…again.