The American Conservative says "The Case for Impeachment is Overwhelming."

[kpete]

The president’s abuse of power is not in dispute. It is clear that he used the powers of his office in an attempt to extract a corrupt favor for his personal benefit, and this is precisely the sort of offense that impeachment was designed to keep in check. It doesn’t matter if the attempt succeeded. All that matters is that the attempt was made. It is also undeniable that he has sought to impede the investigation into his misconduct. The president has committed the offenses he is accused of committing, and the House should approve both articles of impeachment.


The president doesn’t have a credible line of defense left. That is why his apologists in Congress and elsewhere have been reduced to making increasingly absurd and desperate claims.


The central question at the heart of this matter has always been whether we will tolerate the president corruptly using the powers of his office for personal benefit. The president’s defenders have answered loudly that they will tolerate corruption of the presidency. If we have any respect left for the Constitution and the rule of law, it is imperative that the president is not allowed to escape without facing serious consequences for his abuses.


The Rest:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-case-for-impeachment-is-overwhelming/?fbclid=IwAR1TNwVHzepUzAUODRMxyGXvAdLsEVJrEXTtX0sKJHGs7A58Qn1XrNMXDzI

[BadGimp]

1. Who is the audience for the publication these days?

[redstatebluegirl]

2. All of the people who have left the party.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Some info on the publication:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-american-conservative/

[calimary]

9. "...owned by the American Ideas Institute...

...a nonprofit organization that advances a political conservationism.”

“Political conservationism”???

Now there’s some verbal fancy dancing!

[Recursion]

11. Paleos. It's Pat Buchanan's paper.

But he seems to be severely out of touch with the younger columnists he hired.

[progressoid]

4. b b but it wasn't for personal benefit!!11! hE was fighting corruption!! For Murica!

[Sherman A1]

5. K&R

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. I find this intriguing and not without a touch of schadenfreude.

This is a publication founded in part by Pat Buchanan.

"...But the ideological vision Trump put forward during the Republican primary campaign was deeply conservative, and, more specifically, deeply paleoconservative. The paleoconservatives were a major voice in the Republican Party for many years, with Pat Buchanan as their most recent leader, and pushed a line that is very reminiscent of Trumpism..."

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/6/11592604/donald-trump-paleoconservative-buchanan

and from, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/trumpism-intellectual-history-populism-paleoconservatives-214518

"...To the extent that analysts have discerned any new philosophy behind Trump’s rise, they have focused on the vicious, bigoted internet stylings of the so-called alt-right. But the unabashed white nationalism, anti-Semitism and misogyny of that hitherto underground movement constitute only one strain of Trumpism. The larger ideology that the president-elect represents is a post-Iraq War, post-crash, post-Barack Obama update of what used to be called paleoconservatism:..."

So not to put too fine a point on it, Fuck You American Conservative. You gave birth to this monstrosity.

[durablend]

7. They're just mad

That Twittler brought all the racism and other Republican crap out in the open and not in the shadows like they wanted.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. True enough.

[PatrickforO]

13. Good point. They did indeed create the monster of Trumpism.

Now we will have to clean up the mess.

[Recursion]

15. He founded it as the one conservative antiwar magazine during Iraq

Its path since then has been... odd.

That said it's just about the only conservative publication I think is still occasionally worth reading.

[Recursion]

10. Larison hates Trump and always has

The question is when Dreher will switch over. That will be a sea change.

[spanone]

12. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[CaptYossarian]

14. Trump is a social conservative (bigot).

He is by no means a fiscal conservative. Look at the deficit since he stole the WH.

[live love laugh]

16. I've shared this far and wide today. Crickets from the clowns 🤡. nt

[Martin Eden]

17. Bookmarked, thanks! n/t

[Blue Owl]

18. Would make a good stocking stuffer for your conservative relatives

n/t

[ck4829]

19. K&R