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The big current Beltway debate is whether the Democratic Party has gone off the deep end and is destroying the country because a couple of democratic socialists in New York City unseated two incumbents. Apparently, it\u2019s just been too long since party elders and the media establishment had a hand-wringing party over alleged left-wing extremism ruining everything, so this was their invitation to hold one. Democratic strategist <\/span>James Carville says<\/span> he\u2019s done with the party over this. Donald Trump is <\/span>screaming about communists running rampant<\/span>, and the mainstream media is sighing with relief that they have a storyline to prove they aren\u2019t biased against Trump after all. And so it goes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some of us who weren\u2019t born yesterday remember that it was just eight years ago when the same thing happened. Recall that a young upstart by the name of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <\/span>unseated New York Rep. Joseph Crowley<\/span>,<\/span> a powerful 10-term incumbent and chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s win was seen as a crisis for the ages when she and a group of young \u201cwoke\u201d women of color, <\/span>dubbed \u201cthe Squad,\u201d<\/span> were feared to be taking a wrecking ball to everything we hold dear because they were just too extreme for the regular folks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This has happened over and over again when a new generation steps up with a different energy and new ideas: the old guard always freaks out. In our present moment, it\u2019s true that the calls for generational change are very loud, and for obvious reasons. The issue of America\u2019s unconditional support for Israel, especially in the wake of Trump\u2019s disastrous war with Iran, is roiling both parties, and it\u2019s having an effect at the ballot box. But despite whatever internecine disagreements they have \u2014 and they always have them \u2014 Democrats of all stripes are strongly united on one issue above all others: the existential threat to our democracy presented by Trump and the Republican Party.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, the idea that it\u2019s the Democrats who have gone off the deep end because a few more Democratic socialists notched primary wins is laughable, a truth that was perhaps best exemplified by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. When <\/span>harangued by CNBC\u2019s Joe Kernan<\/span> to \u201creject\u201d the winners, Jeffries replied, \u201cDonald Trump is the president right now. Are you kidding me?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So yes, a new generation is bringing some new ideas to Democratic politics. But at the moment, we have a neo-fascist regime running the government, led by an aging oligarch who is stealing the country blind on behalf of his family and wealthy cronies. We are dealing with an unprecedented crisis, and it\u2019s a much bigger problem than an emerging progressive power center in the Democratic coalition right now. The real and most important question is what these Democrats can do about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This week data journalist G. Elliot Morris published a <\/span>Strength In Numbers\/Verasight poll<\/span> that points to one strategy I think is important. When asked \u201cAre there grounds to impeach Trump?\u201d 53% of respondents said yes. When asked to name specifics, the top responses were \u201ccorruption,\u201d \u201cself-enrichment,\u201d \u201cabuse of power\u201d and \u201cdefying the courts.\u201d There was more \u2014 a lot more, from the Epstein files and the Iran war to incompetence, lying and deportations. But by far, the primary grounds most people chose were corruption and abuse of power, the kinds of behaviors that impeachment was designed for. And there is simply no denying that all of it is true.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The result is that most people are all too aware that impeachment is something of a paper tiger . . . <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One sure sign that our system of government \u2014\u00a0and social compact \u2014 is breaking down is that we have had three impeachments in the last half century, when we only had one in our entire history before that. The result is that most people are all too aware that impeachment is something of a paper tiger. As long as a president has just enough partisan support in the Senate to block a conviction, he is pretty safe. But that doesn\u2019t mean the process is a useless exercise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Impeachment is still a very big deal with extremely high stakes. You never know if it just might work because party loyalties have been shown to only go so far. Despite this disclaimer \u2014\u00a0and despite his historic approval ratings \u2014 Trump holds tremendous sway over his party, and it\u2019s highly unlikely he would ever be convicted unless he is drooling and incontinent, and even then . . .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the point. He is the most corrupt president in history, and that fact, with all its dark details, needs to be aired for the public to see while he is in office. After Trump leaves office, there is little chance that any successive administration would be able to charge him, even though the expansive immunity conferred upon him by the Supreme Court ostensibly only applies to official duties. We know any such charges would be litigated to death, and by the time it finally came to trial, he might very well be dead, and the case would be moot.<\/span><\/p>\n

If they take the majority in the House, as many predict, and perhaps the Senate, Democrats have one job over the next two years: to prepare the people for the radical reforms that will be necessary to save the country. No necessary legislation is going to be signed by Donald Trump. No progress on any of the material things that the American people want and need will happen. Those two years must be intensely focused on what must be done after he is gone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has already shown he will abuse his executive power beyond our wildest imaginations. Just this week, it was <\/span>reported<\/span> that the administration plans to cut services for disabled Americans and their families even as Trump spends billions on his vanity legacy projects, which includes his makeover of Washington, D.C., the <\/span>costs of which have skyrocketed<\/span>. Congressional Democrats will not be able to legislate that away, and they should not promise to do so. But they can deliver clarity about the state America is in, and expose the administration and Republicans who are complicit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Standard old hearings with the usual tired back and forth between partisans are not going to work. The public is inured to that spectacle by now. But impeachment remains a valuable tool for exposing what\u2019s gone wrong \u2014 and morally indicting the Republican Party as a whole for failing to take the steps necessary to stop it. If Democrats want to truly exploit this strategy, they could even begin by starting impeachment proceedings against some members of Trump\u2019s Cabinet, such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel. There is ample evidence to support bringing charges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Barring any seismic shift in the Republican political landscape, Donald Trump won\u2019t be removed from office. But if Democrats do what they must with the two years they will have before the 2028 presidential election, they can ready the country for the changes that must be made if they regain power. Such an endeavor will be controversial and difficult, maybe even one of the most difficult political undertakings since Reconstruction. But it has to be done, and the Democratic Party, fractious though it is, remains the best means of accomplishing it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s hope they are up for the task. They have to be. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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