If Republicans Love Their Country, When Will They Show It?

[applegrove]

by Andrew Sullivan at New York Magazine

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/if-republicans-love-their-country-when-will-they-show-it.html

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The standard for impeachment, the commission of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” is not concerned with criminal offenses found in the penal statute books and suitable for courtroom prosecution. It relates instead to the president’s high fiduciary duty to the American people and allegiance to our system of government. Alexander Hamilton put it best in Federalist No. 65. Impeachable offenses are those “Which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in other words from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”

The bickering over collusion ‘crimes’ misses the point. If an unfit person holds the presidency, the danger to our society is that he will abuse the power that he wields. The imperative is to remove him from office.

No crime need be committed. The question is whether we can trust this president to put the interests of the U.S. before himself or a foreign enemy — or some horribly compromised combination of the last two. If there is any doubt about this, the doubt has to be removed. That is what impeachment was invented for. It is to remove an unfit person who has proven himself willing and able to abuse the power entrusted to him.

And so we begin to get the answer to a particularly pointed question: How much do Republicans actually love their country? And when exactly will they prove it?


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[Iliyah]

1. They love money and power

[ProudLib72]

2. In 2018?

Maybe they will suddenly decide they don't love power more than country.

[Golden Raisin]

3. Don't hold your breath.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

4. The 12th of Never.... n/m

[icymist]

5. When will the party that's willing and able to abuse the power entrusted to them impeach?

They only do that to the other party.

[GeoWilliam750]

6. They will show it when Rupert Murdoch tells them to

And not a moment earlier.

[lame54]

7. It's in their flag pins

[oasis]

8. To them, the Founding Fathers vision didn't include people of color

participation in the lawmaking process. During modern times, racist, right wingers were forced to tolerate racial integration and the right to vote for non-whites (within reason).

Presently, in the view of the rich and powerful, the whole democracy/equality thing has gotten so far out of hand, they believe it's better to align with a nation ruled by a likeminded leader (Putin).The Cold War slogan "better dead than red" no longer applies because conservatives in today's America are cut from the same cloth as the Russian leadership.