It seems possible that in the manic accelerations of the twenty-first century, impeachment may soon become routine.
No matter what the outcome of an impeachment, the process itself would, among other things, ensure that nothing much would get done in the way of the public's business.
In the future, it might become merely another ritual of hardball politics.
I can think offhand of at least a half-dozen presidents who might have been impeached-but were not-for abuses of the public trust: I don't mean that they necessarily should have been impeached, only that their enemies might have made a plausible case for it.
Franklin Roosevelt had a foxy way with the truth, and Republicans might have persuasively accused him of abuse of power in lying repeatedly-or anyway, in staging fancy misdirections-as he maneuvered America toward involvement in World War II. As our history shows, presidential incapacity is always a theme.
In 1944, as the war neared its end, Roosevelt's family and allies might have made a stink-someone should have-about the idea of a man in such appalling health running for a fourth term.
His entire conduct of the Vietnam War might have been set forth as an impeachable offense-a seemingly interminable chain of systematic deceptions of the American people.
https://www.city-journal.org/trump-presidential-impeachment
No matter what the outcome of an impeachment, the process itself would, among other things, ensure that nothing much would get done in the way of the public's business.
In the future, it might become merely another ritual of hardball politics.
I can think offhand of at least a half-dozen presidents who might have been impeached-but were not-for abuses of the public trust: I don't mean that they necessarily should have been impeached, only that their enemies might have made a plausible case for it.
Franklin Roosevelt had a foxy way with the truth, and Republicans might have persuasively accused him of abuse of power in lying repeatedly-or anyway, in staging fancy misdirections-as he maneuvered America toward involvement in World War II. As our history shows, presidential incapacity is always a theme.
In 1944, as the war neared its end, Roosevelt's family and allies might have made a stink-someone should have-about the idea of a man in such appalling health running for a fourth term.
His entire conduct of the Vietnam War might have been set forth as an impeachable offense-a seemingly interminable chain of systematic deceptions of the American people.
https://www.city-journal.org/trump-presidential-impeachment
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