Post-impeachment threats begin
By: Byron York
The anger of the secular progressive left is unquenchable. As usual they will come to nothing. The bitter anger, hate, bile, lust for vengeance will never end. Who cares what they think! We stand with Trump! We are a multiracial working and middle class America first nationalist populist coalition and we will not go away. Forget about what they think. We will move forward with our goals and if that feeds their anger and outrage for all to see, so much the better.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
POST-IMPEACHMENT THREATS BEGIN. In the last two impeachments, it was common for Democrats, activists, and cultural figures to threaten Republicans with revenge and long-lasting recriminations. Now, after the third impeachment since 1998, it's starting again.
Take a look at the record. In the Bill Clinton impeachment, a Princeton historian, Sean Wilentz famously told GOP lawmakers that, " History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness. " On the day after Clinton was acquitted on February 12, 1999, the political writer Jack Germond wrote a story headlined, " GOP faces payback for impeachment in 2000 election ." And MoveOn.org, which was founded to oppose the Clinton impeachment, afterwards launched a "We will remember" campaign, in which the organization vowed to take revenge on every Republican who had voted to impeach Clinton.
It didn't work. Republicans went on to win control of the House in 1998. They won it again in 2000. And again in 2002. And again in 2004. They did not lose control of the House until 2006, and then for reasons entirely unrelated to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. The revenge campaign never caught on.
Fast forward to 2019. This time Democrats were the ones doing the impeaching -- and again the ones threatening Republicans. After President Donald Trump was acquitted, the progressive group Democracy for America vowed , "America will not forget what Senate Republicans did today and we are more committed than ever to defeating every single coward who just voted to cover up Donald Trump's crimes in office. Every. Single. One."
The 2019-2020 Trump impeachment also gave birth to the Lincoln Project, the group of former Republican operatives devoted to defeating Trump and his supporters. On the day of Trump's acquittal, two of them, John Weaver and Reed Galen , promised to "hold to account Republican officeholders who have abandoned their Article I responsibilities and oaths of office in favor of this corrupt president." (A year later, by the time Trump was acquitted for a second time, the Lincoln Project had collapsed amid scandal and infighting.)
But the 2020 threats amounted to nothing. What was remarkable in the 2020 elections was that the first Trump impeachment, completed just months earlier, played almost no role in the election. "We acquitted Trump nine months before the last election," noted one Republican senator recently. "How many times did it come up in the campaigns?" Answer: Not many.
Now there is the second Trump impeachment-- and more threats. MoveOn.org, more than 20 years after its opening act, is back at it, promising action against what it calls the “Treason Caucus.” Democratic Representative Ayanna Pressley tweeted, "This impeachment trial was a referendum on white supremacist violence. 43 Republican senators confirmed they condone it. They enable it. They must be expelled."
Emotions are high on the left. Hollywood director Billy Ray, whose credits include Captain Phillips and Richard Jewell, pledged to devote the rest of his life to seeking the "political eradication" of Republicans who acquitted Trump. "My life now has a plan: the political eradication of the unAmerican GOP Sens who chose to acquit," Ray tweeted on Saturday. "Time, money, energy, will -- whatever it takes. They all have to be voted out of office, or hounded into retirement, or (Cruz Hawley) convicted. But the effort begins today. You in?”
So what now? Perhaps the aftermath of this impeachment will be different from the previous two. Perhaps a huge national uprising will punish Senate Republicans for acquitting the former president. But it's more likely that tempers will cool -- for most people, if not the most ardent Resistance -- and the aftermath of Trump impeachment II will resemble what happened before.
Trumpster lackeys - stop whining !
This what you get when every immature asshat in the universe has access to the internet and social media to declare amazing things from the comfort of their Pick one ) basement, laptop or "smart" phone.
Tribalism is alive and well.
Amazing how many peoples feelings are hurt by anonymous internet warriors, lol
Who gives a fuck what their job is?
Your so opposed to the "cancel culture" why aren't you standing up for the right's of Republican officials?
While the 7 Senators and 10 HR's are being censured, one after the other - the height of hypocrisy.
so much for free speech in the GOostepParty.
And we're still supporting his lame ass with secret service agents, even though he caused thousands of supporters to converge on the Capitol to hold Congress hostage. What a lousy ass piece of shit Donald John Trump is and has ever been. Good riddance. He will never darken the halls of power again.
Hi Thomas, Good evening,
Although seemingly ironic as hell, if we didn't protect former president trump that would be wrong.
Furthermore if we were not protecting trump and he was attacked WTF do you think his cult like followers would do ?
No to mention as I said It would not be right not to physically protect all presidents as it is set up to be.
"He will never darken the halls of power again."
I say and have said for years now, "Never underestimate trump, ever !"
So far it seems I have been correct. trump just keeps surprising America. 01-06-2021
He is still a lousy assed piece of shit.
A truly horrible leader of men.
Pretty sure that the vast majority of women don't want to be led around by their pu--ys either.
Or be forced to bear a child against their will.
Who is Billy Ray? Is that someone I should be aware of?