Tom Paine 1949
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One was very well deserved: the second impeachment of Trump.None of the last 3 impeachments were deserved. All were a waste of time and taxpayer money.
It occurred after he stood by and did nothing for hours while his cult followers battled cops and then occupied the Capitol in support of his despicable treasonous efforts to find a way to remain in power after losing the 2020 election. That 2nd impeachment was more than fully justified and should have led to his conviction in the Senate.
Conviction by the Senate would have ended Trump’s political career and the open threat he represents to “the rule of law” in our country, and it also could have allowed the GOP to quickly rebuild itself as a relatively healthy Conservative Party.
Senate conviction got a great majority but failed to get the necessary two-thirds vote only due to cowardly Republicans who knew better but feared losing votes from the base of MAGA morons who believed the “Big Lies” of Trump, a cunning propagandist, entertainer, demagogue and conman.
Our nation is now much the worse off as a result, deeply divided and potentially heading toward a disastrous crisis — all over a rich fat unprincipled lunatic, whose once relatively minor criminal and authoritarian tendencies have now festered, grown out of control, and merged with his long-standing megalomania.
P.S.
Adam Schiff’s “censure” is utterly meaningless. Today’s Congressional Republican Party acts mostly out of pettiness, and sees itself as an actor in its own “theatre of the ridiculous.” The once-great GOP has become ever more petty and irrelevant, but will remain a mortal threat to democracy until it rids itself of its Trump-cultist MAGA crazies.
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