Donald Trump was elected to break the elite. Of course they want to impeach him

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Minimal bans, I want to see the lice crawl out of the woodwork.

(CNN)When the global elite are aligned against him and laughing like the immature cool kids you hated in middle school, President Donald Trump is winning.

When the liberal law professors are neglecting their Thanksgiving turkeys to read congressional transcripts and snarking about Trump's 13-year old son, Trump is winning.

When the politicians are mad — so mad that they have shut down all policymaking to impeach the President of the United States on what constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called "wafer thin" evidence —Trump is winning.

You have to remember: Donald Trump wasn't elected to fit in with these people — the political, intellectual class -- to make them happy, or to become one of them. He was elected to break them. And that's apparently what he's done.

After Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring three liberal law professors and Thursday's announcement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that her conference is moving forward with impeachment, the die is cast -- Donald Trump will be the third president in American history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

And honestly, that's just fine with Trump's supporters. What better evidence is there that you've shaken Washington to its core when the minders of a system you've come to despise are leveling the gravest punishment the system permits against the very President who is doing the shaking up?

We can lawyer this to death, but for many Americans this comes down to a simple observation -- Trump said he was going to rattle their cages, and by golly they seem rattled.

Trump's supporters have known since election night that this day would eventually come. After all, his sworn enemies have been openly promising it since before he was sworn into office! They've used words like "resistance," "coup," "insurance policy," and "impeachment" so often that, now that they are actually doing it, the American people — and Republicans especially — are offering a collective yawn.

Rueful analysts stare into television cameras, lamenting and wondering why Republicans aren't fleeing from the President over the impeachment hearings (he stands at 90% approval among his party in the latest Gallup poll). But there won't be massive convulsions in public opinion because everyone has known for three years what was going to happen.

Sure, some Democrats gamely argue that Pelosi didn't really want to go through with it, but she had to out of a sense of duty to the Constitution. But it's a half-hearted argument at best. It's true that Pelosi had no choice, although it's not because of the Constitution. Rather, her party's left flank and their inflamed grassroots activists overwhelmed her.

This is a one-sided, partisan impeachment. It's the exact kind of thing Congressman Jerry Nadler, now chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, warned Republicans about in 1998, during Bill Clinton's impeachment.

But political party leaders almost always do what the bulk of their party's supporters want them to. Republicans — no matter how moderate — got in line to cut taxes and confirm an avalanche of conservative judges because that's what their activists expected.

And what have Democrats wanted more than anything since Trump's election? Since the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh? Since Trump made Twitter his private channel to the electorate? Since the Mueller probe? Since the Trump Hotel story? Since questions over Jared Kushner's security clearance? Since...you name it?

The answer is obvious: to undo the 2016 election by any means necessary. It's a political itch that had to be scratched, and Pelosi could hold off her tormented partisans no longer.

So here we are, headed for a rushed, hyper-partisan (and futile) exercise put on by the very elites Trump railed against to get himself elected in the first place. But for all the relief they might feel in finally striking this blow against Donald Trump, I wonder: have these Trump opponents even considered what this impeachment signals to the American people?

That partisanship is more important than policymaking? That House Democrats have no confidence in their party's ability to beat Donald Trump in an election?

And, perhaps most alarmingly, that impeachment — once reserved for the gravest of situations — is now just another tool to inflict damage on their political opponents.

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for many Americans this comes down to a simple observation -- Trump said he was going to rattle their cages, and by golly they seem rattled.

Trump's supporters have known since election night that this day would eventually come. After all, his sworn enemies have been openly promising it since before he was sworn into office!
They've used words like "resistance," "coup," "insurance policy," and "impeachment" so often that, now that they are actually doing it, the American people — and Republicans especially — are offering a collective yawn.

Rueful analysts stare into television cameras, lamenting and wondering why Republicans aren't fleeing from the President over the impeachment hearings (he stands at 90% approval among his party in the latest Gallup poll). But there won't be massive convulsions in public opinion because everyone has known for three years what was going to happen.

This is a one-sided, partisan impeachment. It's the exact kind of thing Congressman Jerry Nadler, now chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, warned Republicans about in 1998, during Bill Clinton's impeachment.

[Earl]

Excellent.

The goal, since and even before Trump took office, was to remove him from the presidency.

It is now guaranteed that the Senate will exonerate President Trump and he will remain in office

I will predict that he will be re-elected in 2020..in an elcectoral landslide.

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for many Americans this comes down to a simple observation -- Trump said he was going to rattle their cages, and by golly they seem rattled.

Trump's supporters have known since election night that this day would eventually come. After all, his sworn enemies have been openly promising it since before he was sworn into office!
They've used words like "resistance," "coup," "insurance policy," and "impeachment" so often that, now that they are actually doing it, the American people — and Republicans especially — are offering a collective yawn.

Rueful analysts stare into television cameras, lamenting and wondering why Republicans aren't fleeing from the President over the impeachment hearings (he stands at 90% approval among his party in the latest Gallup poll). But there won't be massive convulsions in public opinion because everyone has known for three years what was going to happen.

This is a one-sided, partisan impeachment. It's the exact kind of thing Congressman Jerry Nadler, now chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, warned Republicans about in 1998, during Bill Clinton's impeachment.

Is this the same as drain the swamp?????

[Earl]

Is this the same as drain the swamp?????

This is all waaay (sic) over your head, Trumper.

[Centerleftfl]

LAUGHING MY ASS OFF!

These people wake up STUPID. And stay stupid all day.

[Earl]

Envious?

[Centerleftfl]

Envious?

I don't think they are envious. They are STUPID. This 'man of the people' schtick is BULLSHIT. But because he has a COMMON mind and talks pussy and other trash, they buy it. Trump was a multimillionaire before he left high school. I have known many people and even had a few friends whose daddies (the richest was MOMMY family money) who passed on 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation wealth, each and every year throughout their childhoods. I

(One of the poorer of the above group received $10k every DEC--end of tax year--along with 2 siblings. By the time they graduated from high school they only had $180k each. Of course that was 50 year ago money).


An investigation by The New York Times shows that by age 3, Donald Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire. He was a millionaire by age 8. By the time he was 17, his father had given him part ownership of a 52-unit apartment building. Soon after he graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his father. The money increased with the years, to more than $5 million annually in his 40s and 50s.

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he said drain the swamp,
don't know it was going to be so much fun

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I suppose Trumpf is too thick strictly to belong to the Elite - just a stinking rich bully who shits on everyone else, at which they are all supposed to cry, 'Heil! Heil! Heil!' Aren't the trumpers a weird lot of buggers!

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I suppose Trumpf is to thick strictly to belong to the Elite - just a stinking rich bully who shits on everyone else, at which they are all supposed to cry, 'Heil! Heil1 Heil!' Aren't the trumpers a weird lot of buggers!

[Centerleftfl]

We'll ALL be dead and TRUMP will still be the WORST president America and Russia ever elected. The history books won't forget and won't CARE that he got a consistent 43-47% approval ratings.

[Earl]

Remember Rosenstein: No Vote Counts or Election Results Were Changed

President Trump is the second best president in history...behind President Washington.

[Getin the ring]

Remember Rosenstein: No Vote Counts or Election Results Were Changed

President Trump is the second best president in history...behind President Washington.

I would have to agree with that, with the possible exception being Lincoln. And only because of the magnitude of the "single" problem he had to deal with, literally a civil war.
Otherwise Lincoln did very little policywise.

trump has single handedly fixed or is in the process of fixing problems that were ignored or kicked down the road for a generation, or two in the case of illegal immigration.

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I suppose Trumpf is to thick strictly to belong to the Elite - just a stinking rich bully who shits on everyone else, at which they are all supposed to cry, 'Heil! Heil1 Heil!' Aren't the trumpers a weird lot of buggers!

Holy fuck, sadly the Welsh Windbag's English degree from Oxbridge didn't include how to spell 'too' correctly.