President Donald J. Trump will be impeached today for abusing his office for personal gain and for obstructing Congress’ ability to investigate his conduct. The evidence against him is clear and overwhelming. So clear and overwhelming is the evidence that Republicans on Capitol Hill concluded that they had to deny everything. Any acknowledgement of guilt would have opened the floodgates and drowned the entire Trump abetting Republican Party. In other words, the President’s open corruption is an indictment of the Republican Party that if acknowledged would lead to a 2020 wipe-out of GOP office holders. In order to save their hope of retaining and regaining power in the 2020 elections, congressional Republicans have chosen to embrace the alternate reality created by Trump and sustained by his mindless flacks and right-wing media shock troops. Republicans in Washington have gone “’all in” on Trumpism. They have chained themselves to Trump and will sink or swim in next year’s elections and in the judgement of history with the most dishonest and openly corrupt president in U.S. History.
Jerold J. Duquette, M.P.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Central Connecticut State University
If only this was an open letter for signatures by political scientists.