They are not just attacking Trump, but his voters. And they all may soon regret it.
For the moment let's put to one side whether Donaldus Minimus is in fact impeachable. (I don't think
he is---yet---but I learned a long time ago never to say never about anyone presiding over or belonging
to the nation's largest organised crime family.) Everybody with me? All right. Now listen up:
We should remember that a line like "they're not just attacking him but his voters" is
exactly
what Droopy-Drawers Clinton's supporters used to say when impeachment talk began wafting up about
their
hero, and when he not only proved impeachable but was in fact impeached. If---
big "if"---Donaldus Minimus should become impeachable, it isn't an attack on his voters, any
more than impeachment proceedings beginning regarding Richard Nixon (who resigned before he might
well have been impeached) was an attack on his voters, any more than the actual impeachment of
Droopy-Drawers was an attack on his voters.
Disagree as you will about how their voters voted, but don't make the mistake of visiting the sins of
a president or other elected official upon those who elected him in (we presume) good faith.
(For future reference: Neither should anyone make the mistake---again setting to one side whether
the incumbent is impeachable---of suggesting that any such impeachment talk equals "usurping"
the "will of the people," the way enough did during the Droopy-Drawers contretemps, since it is
well enough implied that, when you vote for a particular presidential candidate, you also endorse
his/her choice of a running mate and by extension said running mate's competence to assume
the presidency in the event the president-to-be should be incapacitated, impeached, or God forbid
interred.)
