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In reply to the discussion: Impeachment is a lost cause at this point. Focus on 2020. [View all]VOX
(22,976 posts)The 2020 election is squaring up to be the 2016 election on amphetamines. Does anyone honestly believe that the election will be free and fair, based on the chaos, nihilism, lawlessness and blind hatred thats emanated from the White House and Senate over the past 2 1/2 years? This is NOT defeatism, its cold, hard reality. The monsters currently in control arent even worried about the 2020 election theyre busy appointing lifetime right-wing judgeships, shredding regulations, denying healthcare, separating families and putting women and POC into positions of permanent servitude.
Mitch McConnell has done everything but verbally guarantee a Russian-assisted victory in 2020. It will not be Democrats versus Republicans, itll be Russia, too, and every other bad actor on the planet who wants to stamp out liberal democracy. Steve Bannon has been crisscrossing the globe, promoting and advising individuals bent on the destruction of liberal democracies in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the UK, France, Italy and even Brazil. Its certain that hes still very much in Trumps camp, consulting behind the scenes.
Of course impeachment will not rid America of Trump, there can be no illusion about that. But it will bring to light (and establish on record) the tonnage of calculated criminality, corruption, white nationalism and the enlistment of a hostile foreign power to influence the direction of this nation.
Democrats have made a litany of Republicans putting party before country, which is true, of course. But if Democrats shy away from using the Constitutional tool of impeachment to shine a bright light on the collapse of law and morality, simply because they believe it could hurt their chances in 2020, well, sadly, theyre putting party before country as well.
There is a moral imperative here the country is in the clutches of some genuinely evil people who are prepared to do much worse. The United States has been thrown into a Germany 1933 moment. The time to act is NOW.