Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in a midterm election. A whistleblower contacts a House committee chair to attack the Republican president with information that is largely hearsay in nature. At the heart of the whistleblower’s complaints are claims that military support against a foreign enemy has been compromised. Congressional hearings are convened less than a year before the upcoming presidential election. At those hearings, the House committee chair, assumes the role of prosecutor by shaping the list of witnesses called to testify before committee members. The media begins criticizing the Republican president, based on information from unnamed sources, asserting the president abused his official powers. The press further reports the president acted in retaliation against a political opponent for political reasons. All this happened in 1876.Â
The Democrat committee chair was Hiester Clymer and the whistleblower was George Armstrong Custer. Even though the House in 1876 impeached a cabinet secretary and other members of the Republican administration were indicted, the president completed two terms in office without interruption. If Democrats want to interrupt the current Republican president’s occupancy of the White House, they should shift their focus away from impeachment and get behind a 2020 candidate who can keep the Democrats’ base united while drawing independent voters away from the Republican ticket. To do otherwise risks defeat for Democrats in 2020.
Ray- I think Democrats have already looked at their list of candidates and have decided their only option for victory is to remove the president. They have the weakest candidates ever in our country's history and they all want to steer our country toward socialism. Ain't gonna happen. Trump 2020.
Chris: Seriously, after all the serious damage Trump has done, after all the lying and exposure of inability to lead, attract and keep qualified people, all the stupid twitters and his losing face debating a 16 year old Swedish environmentalist, - do you think there are still enough people dump enough and sufficiently careless and uninformed to vote for Trump? Or, do you believe that the usual Republican tricks and voter suppression, combined with foreign meddling will do the job again, like in 2016? You may be right, but for the future of the country, and for the sake of the the world, I sure hope you are wrong! We will see, won't we?
you needed to give me another option Jorg- the American people will vote for what is best for our country, that is what I think and that is clearly Trump in 2020.
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Ray- I think Democrats have already looked at their list of candidates and have decided their only option for victory is to remove the president. They have the weakest candidates ever in our country's history and they all want to steer our country toward socialism. Ain't gonna happen. Trump 2020.
Chris: Seriously, after all the serious damage Trump has done, after all the lying and exposure of inability to lead, attract and keep qualified people, all the stupid twitters and his losing face debating a 16 year old Swedish environmentalist, - do you think there are still enough people dump enough and sufficiently careless and uninformed to vote for Trump? Or, do you believe that the usual Republican tricks and voter suppression, combined with foreign meddling will do the job again, like in 2016? You may be right, but for the future of the country, and for the sake of the the world, I sure hope you are wrong! We will see, won't we?
you needed to give me another option Jorg- the American people will vote for what is best for our country, that is what I think and that is clearly Trump in 2020.
Ray - spot on, great article.
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