Last weekend, an aide to a Republican congressman told me House Democrats will impeach Trump. This possibility, of course, has always been the probable outcome. So what? This impeachment is but a symptom of a much larger problem: the scary state of America’s “liberal” establishment – the current state of which is the Resistance and its belief that a real change president is an existential threat to the “liberal” abstraction of truth, justice and the American way. Thank God, voters appear to see a bigger picture.
Outside the Beltway, impeachment doesn’t seem to matter much. The latest Hill-HarrisX poll found 56% of registered Democrats, 74% of independent voters, and 93% of registered Republicans believe Mr. Trump will complete his term. In the Rasmussen Report Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, the President’s approval rose from 46% Wednesday to 50% Friday. Voters haven’t been convinced by “patriotic” bureaucrats that screw-ups with Ukraine amount to presidential crimes – not yet.
The real threat of the Resistance is not the ugly means but the ugly ends; the Obama-Clinton abstraction of truth, justice, and the American way, wherein “accepted” climate science is the truth, judicial “activism” is justice, and un-documented immigration is the American way. Democrats miss the point by making 2016 all about Trump: 63 million US citizens voted against Crooked Hillary, identity politics, and economic stagnation. Dems might take out Trump, but deplorable voters will still resent Obama-Clinton dogma.
A multilateral consensus of global institutions isn’t an absolute truth. After the Vietnam War and OPEC oil embargo, Democrats have prevented the US from going it alone. This has, of course, made the European Union and United Nations “multilateral partners” with the US and created “multilateral truths” like the evil of American fossil fuels and the legitimacy of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization).
There was no justice in the Kavanaugh hearing or Mueller investigation. After 2016, Democrats openly resisted the consequences of Republican control by alleging criminal behavior. They alleged sexual misconduct in the 80s to resist a conservative Supreme Court nominee, and campaign treachery to resist the President. The pathology is clear that politics, rather than justice, spawned the allegations – and both conservatives issued warnings: false pursuits of justice for political gain sets a horrible precedent.
The USA is a sovereign state in which God, family, and community matter to a majority of its citizens. Despite changing demographics in California and New York, there is no New America, wherein citizenship and convention have no standing. Native-born workers don’t want immigrants to set the going wage, tax-paying citizens don’t want to fund healthcare for non-citizens, and church-going families don’t want to be called “deplorable” for their beliefs. Identity politics is the worst idea since the Salem witch trials.
Americans respect wealthy and successful entrepreneurs. DC is filled with intellectual-yet-idiotic elites, who scoff at the C-student frat boy and his “dumb idea” of craft beer – that made millions! This arrogance was 100% evident in Barack “you did not build that” Obama and Elizabeth “the rest of us paid for your success” Warren. Hello? High taxes aren’t so “smart” and costly regulations aren’t so “expertly written” out here in the real world. A collectivist “nanny state” is no substitute for the get-ahead individualism that fuels American dynamism and prosperity.
And so – – even if House Democrats impeach and Senate Republicans oust, it won’t make the planet any cooler, undo a now-conservative judiciary, change mainstream American views, or ensure an improved economy. Trump is “this close” to getting a trade deal to protect the US against Chinese economic (and military) hegemony. That’s the big enchilada, and why whatever Trump said to Ukraine just doesn’t matter.