Impeach Trump? Think Carefully, Please.

Impeach Trump?  Think Carefully, Please.

The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik in his March 18^th essay “The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump” offers serious considerations about the wisdom of pursuing sudden energy to impeach a man as notably ill-equipped in politics, a education, and morality as the current President of the United States.  If you have not read the article, you’d be most wise to do so.  It may be true that Pelosi’s observation that he isn’t worth it may also be a prescient warning as to why it is not worth it for such an activity to proceed on many, many levels. 

I take the liberty to provide three observations by Adam Gopnik.  I believe you’ll find these separate observations quite enough to bring you to reading and thinking about his judicious opinion at The New Yorker.  

“There is, however, a real and reasonable argument among congressional Democrats—and, indeed, among the public—about whether pursuing Trump’s impeachment, even assuming that we get the facts, is a wise idea. The arguments against it range from the hyper-practical point that a President Mike Pence would be worse, to the procedural-minded one that, since impeaching Trump would mean that two of the four most recent Presidents would have been impeached, and since articles of impeachment can be passed by a simple majority in the House, every President from now on would risk facing it the moment the opposition has a majority. This would create perpetual governmental paralysis, and, while Trump might not care about safeguarding democratic institutions, the country should.”

“Any one of a dozen things that Trump has done overtly would have resulted, if done clandestinely by another President, in near-universal cries for impeachment, if not for immediate resignation. Just for a start, his firing of the director of the F.B.I. and then confessing to both a journalist and the Russian foreign minister that he did it to end an investigation into his own campaign’s contacts with Russians follows the exact form of one of the impeachable offenses—obstruction of justice—that was applied against Richard Nixon. The “smoking gun” tape smoked because it showed that Nixon had tried to stop the F.B.I. from investigating the Watergate break-in on phony “national security” grounds.”

“Pragmatism is not a way of negating principle but, rather, the realist’s way of pursuing principle. The arguments against impeachment today are primarily pragmatic, the arguments for it primarily principled, but the principled course could, before long, turn into the only practical course. Impeachment may be too good for Trump. It may yet prove just the thing for the country.”

Please read the entire article.  Let's work together and save our Constitution together.