If House Democrats want to undermine the seriousness of our constitutional system while also sabotaging their own political prospects, they can do nothing more effective than to vote to open impeachment proceedings against President Trump today.
Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas has introduced articles of impeachment based not on any specific crime and not on any major (but non-criminal) abuse of presidential power. Instead, his resolution says Trump should be impeached for generally being “unfit” to carry out his constitutional duties because of his “racist comments that have legitimatized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.” Thus, the resolution says, Trump has “brought the high office of the President of the United States in contempt, ridiculed, disgraced and disrepute (sic).”
