There’s no such thing as bad publicity – P.T. Barnum
So here we are. As I type this, the House of Representatives seems ready to cave-in to impeachment proceedings.
Allegedly, the President negotiated with a foreign power to obtain dirt on a possible opponent in the 2020 election. To leverage that dirt, he withheld US foreign aid. So the story goes.
I really dislike our President. Thankfully, in America, one can do that and not go to jail. I resent how he personally took over my political party like a virus, how he made America less than it is for his own gain.
Looking forward, if this impeachment goes forward it will have the following effects:
- He will not be removed from office. The Senate will NEVER vote him out. They’ve made that abundantly clear
- It feeds his narrative to his (minority) base that’s “The Deep State” is against him because he won’t play “their” game.
- It will lead to another 4 years of Donald Trump. The center of the country will (once again) vote him in just to spite the Democratic party, which (once again) has abandoned the working class message of 1960’s for extremist, thought-policing rhetoric.
The plausibly could lead to civil unrest in the United States, as citizens resist either the extreme Authoritarian regime that will emerge post-impeachment or the “thought crimes” regime of the other side.
Just as post-revolutionary France vacillated between extremes, we’re looking at instability not seen since the Great Depression, or possibly the Civil War.
God help us all. We the People….are so broken.