Conservatives Should Stop Trying To Justify Impeaching Trump

[mystery-ak]

 Conservatives Should Stop Trying To Justify Impeaching Trump

Holding Trump accountable for the actions of a handful of rioters is deeply misguided, and conservatives should know better than to support it.

By John Daniel Davidson
January 25, 2021

Now that Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president, Democrats and the corporate press have turned their attention back to Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate, which will likely begin next month.

Senate Democrats will need 17 Republicans to join them in order to convict Trump on the single impeachment charge of “willful incitement of insurrection.” Although Democrats might get a few GOP members like Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Mitt Romney to join them, it’s unlikely they’ll get many more. That would mean Trump’s second impeachment ends up like his first: a pointless exercise in partisan politics.

That would be fitting, because that’s exactly what this second impeachment effort is. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knows it, McConnell knows it, and the American people know it.

Surprisingly, though, some conservative commentators don’t seem to know it. Consider the case for convicting and disqualifying Trump recently put forth by Dan McLaughlin at National Review. After some caveats and throat-clearing, McLaughlin’s argument boils down to this: Trump should have known that claiming the election was rigged would inspire a small group of protesters to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Therefore, he bears “moral and political responsibility for inspiring the Capitol riot, and for putting a target on Mike Pence’s back.”

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https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/25/conservatives-should-stop-trying-to-justify-impeaching-trump/

[sneakypete]

The first fallacy is that they are Conservatives.

They are NOT. They are Dims who ran as Republicans because there were no Dim slots open for them to run in.

They aren't even Republicans because you have to believe in a Republic as the best form of government,and they don't.

[dfwgator]

The first fallacy is that they are Conservatives.

They are NOT. They are Dims who ran as Republicans because there were no Dim slots open for them to run in.

They aren't even Republicans because you have to believe in a Republic as the best form of government,and they don't.

They are all Globalists.

[skeeter]

The first fallacy is that they are Conservatives.

They are NOT. They are Dims who ran as Republicans because there were no Dim slots open for them to run in.

They aren't even Republicans because you have to believe in a Republic as the best form of government,and they don't.

No they are not. They are trying to sink Trump's movement, not Trump.

[Right_in_Virginia]

No they are not. They are trying to sink Trump's movement, not Trump.

They're trying to do both @skeeter

[Fishrrman]

"They" (any Republican senators who would vote to convict Mr. Trump) represent the epitome of Lenin's term, "useful idiots" ...