The vile extremism on the left

Michael Goodwin:
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After Democrats seized the House in 2018, Speaker Nancy ­Pelosi became the firewall against impeachment. By the time she surrendered last fall, Pelosi had adopted the fiery zeal of a convert.

She now displays her hatred of Trump without reservation and accuses him of being a Russian agent, notwithstanding that special counsel Robert Mueller concluded otherwise. Anyone who disagrees with her is accused of being part of a criminal coverup, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Attorney General Bill Barr.

Given Pelosi’s position, these extraordinary accusations are unprecedented in modern times. Yet such vile extremism is the new normal on the left, which uses Trump as an excuse for its own abnormal conduct.

A top Pelosi henchman, Rep. Jerry Nadler, argued last week that, despite the coming election, impeachment must go forward now. Waiting wasn’t an option, he claimed, because the Ukraine case proves beyond a doubt that Trump is “trying to cheat in that election.”

Impeachment, and presumably conviction and removal, are needed to stop the president “from conspiring with a foreign government as the Russian government attempted to rig our last election.”

“We have to proceed,” Nadler insisted, “because the integrity of the election is at stake.”

So impeachment is not just for past acts but also for imagined future ones. By that logic, a 2021 impeachment is guaranteed if Trump wins re-election and Dems keep the House.

Indeed, if as expected the current impeachment ends in acquittal, it’s not far-fetched to believe there could be another one even before November. When you hate a president this much, you can never have too many impeachments.

Besides, the mere talk of removing Trump gets more attention — and donations — than anything else the party and its candidates are ­offering.
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Some are arguing that the divide might lead to succession.  Such a move would likely lead to further population shifts from blue to red.  The rot that we currently see in Calfornia, Illinois and New York would only get worse if they separated from the US.

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