Decades ago, I read of a Roman--perhaps fictional, as my memory is hazy--noting their bad leaders who said that it was better to endure a series of bad rulers than to resort to coups to put a good leader in charge. The damage from that non-rules based change of leader would be far greater than the effects of the bad rulers replaced under the rules. Because one day the rules would return Rome to a good ruler. But the Roman elites decided that a coup was the short-term solution to their government problems. They chose poorly. Civil wars resulted.
The latest impeachment farce is much less than any of the past impeachable crimes that failed to show actual crimes. Have you forgotten them?
[There were] the voting machine gambit, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment, the emoluments clause, the McCabe-Rosenstein faux-coup, the Comey memos farce, the “resistance” efforts outlined by the New York Times anonymous op-ed writer, the campaign finance violations accusations, Stormy, tax returns, whistleblowers, leakers, the Mueller 22 months charade, and now impeachment 2.0[.]
But now, after that history, Ukrainegate is the real deal for impeachment 2.0? Get a grip, people.
Really, as Taibbi writes, this is a permanent coup attempt:
We are speeding toward a situation when someone in one of these camps refuses to obey a major decree, arrest order, or court decision, at which point Americans will get to experience the joys of their political futures being decided by phone calls to generals and police chiefs.
My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.
The Trump presidency is the first to reveal a full-blown schism between the intelligence community and the White House. Senior figures in the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies made an open break from their would-be boss before Trump’s inauguration, commencing a public war of leaks that has not stopped.
After Democrats said they were cool with all of Obama's executive powers that he gathered in the Oval Office, Democrats are horrified that Trump has them.
And now the Democrats have carried out a non-stop effort to undo a lawful election. Will Democrats enjoy it when Republicans match Democratic resistance starting the day after the next election the Democrats win?
Will Democrats be fine with unleashing American law enforcement and intelligence assets on the Democratic president-elect for the three months until swearing in, in order to have information to wage unrelenting resistance for four years?
Democrats are killing rule of law in America with their unrelenting turn-it-to-11 resistance.
It is insane to push any type of impeachment even as the election campaign is now running on the Democratic side. An election will give us a chance to settle our dispute in just one year.
It is self-destructive to America to push serial impeachment attempts in the absence of any actual impeachable crime.
And it is doubly insane because Trump despite his personal failings is not actually harming America with his policies. We remain free and prosperous.
The Democrats are throwing out so many BS charges (and given their past histories of doing the same things but without the sophistication and media allies to have deniability, it is enraging to see Democrats do this) because the Democrats hope voters will think that if there is that much smoke here must be a fire.
I hope voters will see that the smoke is just from what the Democrats are smoking.
Do you wonder why I'd crawl across broken glass to vote for Trump next year despite my long history of despising Trump? People, despite my loathing of Hillary, I did not vote for Trump in 2016.
But Democrats have acted so much worse than mere mean Tweets that I have no choice. Good God, the Democrats are acting so horribly with such dire consequences for America if they succeed that I have to consider the possibility that Trump has to be mean and gross and whatever other adjective you want to use to defeat them and preserve our republic.
That's what the Democrats have done with their insanity. Trump is the bulwark against the destruction of rule of law!
I'll be voting for rule of law far more than I will be voting for Trump or even voting against whatever far left loon the Democratic primary system spits out.
How many Democrats--and Taibbi seems to fall into this category--will look at this political situation and say, "I may disagree with who you lawfully elected, but I will defend to the death your right to elect a president under our rules." So far not many, if Twitter and the media are to be believed.
But I retain hope.
Tips to Instapundit.
UPDATE: Related thoughts on the threats to freedom of speech.
