Opinion: Congress should censure Trump — and then move on, KatrinaNation writes
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at a news conference in January. By Katrina vanden Heuvel Katrina vanden Heuvel Columnist covering national politics, progressive politics and movements, and foreign policy Bio Follow Columnist April 23 at 8:10 AM Far from the “complete and total exoneration” claimed by President Trump, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s 448-page report paints a scathing portrait of a lawless president.
The report confirms that Trump is a congenital liar, ignorant or scornful of the laws, who has turned the White House into what columnist Maureen Dowd accurately characterized as a “dystopian outpost of his id.” Far from an exoneration, the Mueller report is being viewed as essentially an impeachment referral. Some of the best and brightest progressive leaders in Congress have called for initiating impeachment hearings. Sen. Elizabeth Warren was the first of the presidential contenders to do so.
Yes, Democrats face political risks if they don’t impeach. Failing to impeach Trump might well demoralize the very Democratic activists and base voters needed to turn out in large numbers in 2020. But impeachment on the basis of unsuccessful efforts to obstruct an investigation into a conspiracy that didn’t happen will bitterly polarize an already polarized country. Some suggest that Pelosi and others fear impeachment will create a backlash that will hurt Democrats in the 2020 election.
Yet given what we know, Democrats would be wiser to move on from what is now called Russiagate. For more than two years, too many liberal voices and too many Democratic politicians have been focused almost monomaniacally on the last election and Russia’s involvement. Pumped up by the media, many Democrats ludicrously inflated Russiagate into an attack on our country akin to 9/11 or Pearl Harbor.
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