Congressman Clay Higgins ripped into the House impeachment proceedings, comparing his Democratic colleagues to “socialists” in a speech given before the assembly on Wednesday.
“I have descended into the belly of the beast. I have witnessed a terror from within. And I rise committed to oppose the insidious forces which threaten our republic,” the Louisiana Republican said.
Standing before a map of the 2016 presidential election results, Higgins, 58, accused Democrats of dismissing what he referred to as “flyover country.”
“America is being severely injured by this betrayal, by this unjust and weaponized impeachment brought upon us by the same socialists who threaten unborn life in the womb, who threaten First Amendment rights of conservatives, who threaten Second Amendment protections of every American patriot, and who have long ago determined that they would organize and conspire to overthrow President Trump.”
Although many Democrats have used their floor time during the impeachment debate to quote the Founding Fathers and the Constitution, Higgins suggested the members were using American history for the wrong reasons.
“We don’t face this horror because the Democrats have all of a sudden become constitutionalists,” Higgins said. “We’re not being devoured from within because of some surreal assertion of the socialists’ newfound love for the very flag that they trod upon. We face this horror because of this map. This is what the Democrats fear. They fear the true will of ‘we the people.’”
“We will never surrender our nation to career establishment D.C. politicians and bureaucrats. Our republic shall survive this threat from within. American patriots shall prevail,” he said.
