If not for the pandemic and recession, Trump would probably have been reelected, despite the spectacle of impeachment earlier in the year, and despite four years of conspiracy-mongering by prestige media outlets that presented Trump as a tool of Vladimir Putin.
The Americans who petitioned Congress on January 6 were fully within their rights, as was President Trump himself in calling for the crowds to 'peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard'.
The Democrats had only House members, not senators or a president, who were prepared to object in those years - but among the House Democrats who tried to change the Electoral College count in 2017 was Jamie Raskin, whom Democrats had the temerity to make one of the impeachment managers in 2021.
The Democrats selectively cut the video of Trump's speech to the crowd on January 6 to omit his use of the words 'peacefully and patriotically' in the context of calling for a march to the Capitol.
If the case against Trump were as strong as Democrats and their allies insisted all along, why gild the lily, so to speak? Of course, if Trump were guilty of any criminal act, impeachment would be beside the point: he could be charged with a crime just like any other citizen once he left office and prosecuted in the ordinary fashion.
Their aim is to shore up their own faltering power by making more Americans scared of Trump and the Republican party as a whole.
The issue isn't Trump, it's the liberal consensus itself - a consensus that has failed America over the past 20 years and has undermined its own authority by thoroughly demoralizing and radicalizing the public.
Friday, July 30, 2021
The Democrats should investigate themselves for insurrection
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