Maybe there should be a "Trump Bar" when it comes to impeachment of future presidents?
One of the things I am advocating is the wholesale removal of "impeachment" from the political landscape. Not having impeachment for the POTUS would have several benefits, it would increase the value of every vote (As in if we're stuck with that potus, then maybe we collectively won't vote for the joke candidate or for the candidate who won't disclose everything. And in the case of Trump, then it's both. Your vote will not be something to throw away now) and I am also a Democrat... I know that when a Democrat is potus, impeachment won't become this last-resort option that we should never actually use, but there will be people who are OK with using impeachment as a way to "cleanse" the office rather than removing a president for "high crimes and misdemeanors", I don't like double standards, maybe we should remove the standard.
In my studies of doing this, I have found out that there is 'hard removal' and 'soft removal'.
Hard removal - Actually amending the Constitution to remove impeachment from it
Soft removal - Make the bar as a whole harder to reach
I am OK with both ways of hard removal and soft removal of impeachment, a way of soft removal is maybe there should be a "Trump Bar" for impeachment of a future potus.
As in... "Do the actions of this president exceed the Trump Bar?"
If the answer is "No", then impeachment is not on the table. Discussion ends there.
This has a couple of benefits:
1. We raise the bar for impeachment, this is one of many potential ways of getting soft removal and I've got people who don't want impeachment removed but yet agreeing with me that impeachment is broken. This is how we can do it.
2. We protect a future Democratic president from impeachment, it is no longer something that can be wielded as a petty weapon against a 'radical' potus that a future right wing House and Senate would not like.
3. This uses Trump as a standard for corruption, Trump becomes the line where corruption becomes too much. This would be an unwanted version of Trump's face on Mt. Rushmore or on the dollar bill. If you don't like the cult of personality associated with Trump, then this is a good counterattack against that cult.
Hard removal and soft removal... Both of these things need to happen to protect the party and to patch a hole in the rule of law.
It starts here, it starts today. Let's repair the political landscape.
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