The Ultimate Fighting President

[babylonsister]

https://prospect.org/impeachment/ultimate-fighting-president-trump/


The Ultimate Fighting President
Trump has revealed to us something awful about our country, and having learned it we can’t see things the way we used to.
by Paul Waldman
November 4, 2019


Trump got roundly booed at a UFC event at Madison Square Garden where he was under the misimpression he’d get a warmer reception.

The impending impeachment of Donald Trump brings with it the possibility of something that has been in short supply over the last three years: accountability. At last, you may think, we can use a constitutional process to proclaim at last that This Is Not OK. A president may not coerce a foreign country to dig up dirt on one of his political rivals, not to mention the many other impeachable offenses he has committed. He will be forced to answer for what he has done.

Yet that feeling is accompanied by the suspicion that actually, he won’t—not really. For now, it appears all but certain that Trump will be impeached by the House and then acquitted in the Senate, where 20 Republicans would have to vote against him for him to be removed from office. When the process is complete, we will know that his misdeeds were detailed and laid before the public, but it’s hard to feel as though we’ll have all that much reason to be happy.

This is one of the products of Trump’s time in office: the contamination of our emotional lives. Trump has made us feel dread, despair, disillusionment, and a dozen other awful emotions whose grip it feels impossible to escape. And even if he loses in 2020 then slinks back to Mar-a-Lago to spend his days regaling his dwindling number of sycophants with tales of his matchless presidency, we’ll continue to live with the effects for years or even decades to come.

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There may yet be more to come, if nothing else in the form of an election defeat next year. But it’s hard to escape the gnawing feeling that nothing we can do to Trump will ever make up for what he has done to us.

[abqtommy]

1. We've got the Law, The Constitution, the Will Of The People and the Votes on our side. If

that doesn't give a person confidence that we can remove tRUMP from office and put him and the
reTHUGS out of our misery then that person isn't thinking correctly. The final key to the whole
scenario is to guarantee a fair and secure vote. With that included as a given we've got an unbeatable combination that will take anybody down.

[WA-03 Democrat]

2. +1,000,000

[smirkymonkey]

3. K&R