Post by the Scribe on Mar 10, 2020 11:38:31 GMT
GOP TALKING POINT: IMPEACHMENT OF TRUMP IS A COUP, UNDOING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE AND THE 2016 ELECTION
FACT: Impeachment is not about elections or political gains, it's about accountability and ensuring that the highest office in the nation isn't violated by its holder.
THE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE ARE UPHOLDING THE LAW AS LAID OUT BY THE CONSTITUTION TO HOLD ANY PRESIDENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES AS STATED IN SAID CONSTITUTION.
ONE MAY ALSO SAY THAT REPUBLICONSERVATIVE OBSTRUCTION TO THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS IS TANTAMOUNT TO THEM TRYING TO UNDO THE 2018 ELECTION THAT GAVE DEMOCRATS THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN ORDER TRUMP AND THE GOP SHOULD BE HELD TO ACCOUNT. TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME.
As a not-so-wise man once said: "Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office." - Lindsey Graham, 1999
It is clear that Trump and his allies hope to render impeachment taboo by imaging it as “the greatest Witch Hunt in political history,” propelled by “crazy” Nancy Pelosi and the “fake news media” as “a total scam and excuse for the Dems losing the Election!” Trump likes to claim that he won a “landslide” victory in the 2016 presidential election as “Democrats…suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country.”
But that is not what happened. Trump lost the national popular vote in 2016 by 2.9 million ballots. He became president only because three states in which the majority of voters opposed his candidacy gave him narrow pluralities and a sufficient number of electoral votes to claim an Electoral College advantage. The president has no mandate upon which to build an argument against accountability.
The 46 percent of the vote Trump obtained in 2016 was less than the percentage attained by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney when he lost in 2012. In fact, the level of support for Trump was lower than that accorded to a long list of defeated presidential contenders, including John Kerry in 2004, Gerald Ford in 1976 and Richard Nixon in 1960. Notably, it was also lower than that of both the popular-vote winner of the 2000 election (Al Gore) and that year’s Electoral College winner (George W. Bush).
Impeachment is not a tool for rectifying election results. Nor should election results serve as an argument against impeachment—if we were to suggest that popular vote winners ought to be immune from accountability, then Richard Nixon would have finished his second term. But a popular-vote loser certainly should not be able to argue against impeachment on the grounds that holding him to account would countermand the message sent by the electorate.
Impeaching Donald Trump and removing him from office would not overturn the will of the people. The will of the people was that Hillary Clinton should be president. She secured 65.8 million votes to Trump’s 62.9 million. If we make the reasonable assumption that the millions of voters who cast their ballots for third-party contenders were also disinclined to make “the Donald” the president, then the anti-Trump total moves closer to 73 million. Impeaching and removing Donald Trump would make him what most voters wanted him to be when they cast their ballots in 2016: a citizen who does not hold the office of president.
www.thenation.com/article/mueller-report-impeachment-would-affirm-the-will-of-the-people/
FACT: Impeachment is not about elections or political gains, it's about accountability and ensuring that the highest office in the nation isn't violated by its holder.
THE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE ARE UPHOLDING THE LAW AS LAID OUT BY THE CONSTITUTION TO HOLD ANY PRESIDENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES AS STATED IN SAID CONSTITUTION.
ONE MAY ALSO SAY THAT REPUBLICONSERVATIVE OBSTRUCTION TO THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS IS TANTAMOUNT TO THEM TRYING TO UNDO THE 2018 ELECTION THAT GAVE DEMOCRATS THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN ORDER TRUMP AND THE GOP SHOULD BE HELD TO ACCOUNT. TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME.
As a not-so-wise man once said: "Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office." - Lindsey Graham, 1999
It is clear that Trump and his allies hope to render impeachment taboo by imaging it as “the greatest Witch Hunt in political history,” propelled by “crazy” Nancy Pelosi and the “fake news media” as “a total scam and excuse for the Dems losing the Election!” Trump likes to claim that he won a “landslide” victory in the 2016 presidential election as “Democrats…suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country.”
But that is not what happened. Trump lost the national popular vote in 2016 by 2.9 million ballots. He became president only because three states in which the majority of voters opposed his candidacy gave him narrow pluralities and a sufficient number of electoral votes to claim an Electoral College advantage. The president has no mandate upon which to build an argument against accountability.
The 46 percent of the vote Trump obtained in 2016 was less than the percentage attained by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney when he lost in 2012. In fact, the level of support for Trump was lower than that accorded to a long list of defeated presidential contenders, including John Kerry in 2004, Gerald Ford in 1976 and Richard Nixon in 1960. Notably, it was also lower than that of both the popular-vote winner of the 2000 election (Al Gore) and that year’s Electoral College winner (George W. Bush).
Impeachment is not a tool for rectifying election results. Nor should election results serve as an argument against impeachment—if we were to suggest that popular vote winners ought to be immune from accountability, then Richard Nixon would have finished his second term. But a popular-vote loser certainly should not be able to argue against impeachment on the grounds that holding him to account would countermand the message sent by the electorate.
Impeaching Donald Trump and removing him from office would not overturn the will of the people. The will of the people was that Hillary Clinton should be president. She secured 65.8 million votes to Trump’s 62.9 million. If we make the reasonable assumption that the millions of voters who cast their ballots for third-party contenders were also disinclined to make “the Donald” the president, then the anti-Trump total moves closer to 73 million. Impeaching and removing Donald Trump would make him what most voters wanted him to be when they cast their ballots in 2016: a citizen who does not hold the office of president.
www.thenation.com/article/mueller-report-impeachment-would-affirm-the-will-of-the-people/