Greetings,
There was a time I thought Donald Trump was nothing more than a poster boy for the greed and decline of America, a fatuous egomaniac with novelty hair. He was an irrelevancy.
When he ran for president I figured it was joke… just another PR deal, just more attention. I was shocked at the American public’s receptivity to his mental illness and desecration of truth. Since he “took over America”, I’ve watched him assault every foundation of the country I love, pervert every impulse of human decency, and even twist the idea of reality itself. Donald Trump was never capable of filling the role of president. He is deeply disturbed mentally and his actions make him the clearest possible case of a domestic enemy. 
That’s reality. It’s offensive and ugly, but it’s still reality. Sometimes reality is ugly.
However, the Republicans would have you believe I, and others like me, started with a random, unreasoning hatred and stitched together a sham justification for it. Much of Trump’s impeachment fight DEPENDS on this fallacy and ones just like it. Take away the fallacies and the reality that remains is stark.
Impeachment is NOT “overturning the election”. Trump lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College. He is President. The same Constitution that enables his victory prescribes Impeachment for removal of Presidents.
Impeachment is NOT “another bite at the apple” because Mueller’s report is a very different apple from the Ukrainian one. Trump’s despotic actions, autocratic demeanor, and flouting of the law come from an orchard of impeachable apples.
Impeachment is NOT about “one phone call”… It’s about a pattern of behavior. Evidence shows Trump shredding the emoluments clause, disregarding his oath of office, and coordinating an effort to turn America’s blood, treasure, values, and government into a campaign tool while risking the very existence of a sovereign country in the shadow of Putin’s Russia. “One phone call” is just one element of the damning proof.
Impeachment is NOT a “coup”. A coup is an illegal seizure of power, but impeachment constitutionally takes power from one who abused the trust. Donny cries “witch hunt” , “fake news”, and “coup” (but never, curiously, “investigation”) because he has no defense in fact. HIS acts ARE a “coup”, one against the constitutional powers of a co-equal branch of government.
Impeachment is NOT “depriving the president of due process”. Trump is receiving precisely the process due him by law and Constitution, both for his position and his malfeasance. An innocent man might welcome clearance from a wrongful charge, releasing documents and offering coherent testimony instantly. The continuing obstruction itself is not evidence of Trump standing up for a principle, but of wrong-doing.
Donald Trump is an abomination who should be summarily removed from office and his every act expunged from human memory. That’s what I’d LIKE to do. Instead, since I believe our country is better than Donald Trump, I think we must, AND OBVIOUSLY, IN REALITY, ARE granting him benefits and protections of the law he would so quickly deny to others.
Impeachment articles, if eventually filed, will be a catalog of high crimes and misdemeanors with supporting evidence. “Democrats hate Trump” will not be one of the charges. If and when the House and Senate vote, they’ll be voting on reality… though there’s no way in today’s world to know how far they’ll be willing to continue denying reality to keep a criminal in power.
Make a great day,
