If the case for impeachment were as strong as #TheResistance says it is, you would think they could explain it in an honest way that bears at least some semblance to reality.
They can’t, so they’ve reheated an old talking point — foreign interference in an election! — that doesn’t even come close to describing what Trump did that’s supposed to be so impeachable.
Democrats apparently believe that they can take an innocuous midsummer phone conversation between President Trump and the leader of Ukraine about potential corruption and sum it up as: Trump asked a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 election.
Democrats and liberals in the media are doing everything they can to convince themselves that this will be a slam dunk in convincing the public that the president deserves removal from office.
“This has clarity and understanding in the eyes of the American people,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California reportedly said last week in a private meeting with colleagues.
Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan, said she believed that “everybody understands” the “very clear threat to national security and to our Constitution” that rose from the phone call.
New York Times liberal Charles Blow, master of original metaphors, wrote this week that “the clarity” of Trump’s “transgression” on the call is “as clear as a bell.”
Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post confidently declared that “it is not in question” that Trump “committed at least one impeachable offense” and that his “misconduct” is “easy to understand.”
There’s just one problem there: None of it is easy to understand. It’s actually almost impossible to comprehend without a flowchart, an abacus and a crystal ball.
If I’m an average person who has just been told that the president may be impeached for having asked the Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election, my first question is, “Is Ukraine still a country?” My second question is, “Why Ukraine?”
I know that right now we’re supposed to suspend all questions because there’s an impeachment we have to get to but Democrats will eventually have to address that second one and it’s clear that they have no idea how.
Next, as an average person, I’d want to know the answer to this question, “Why would Ukraine be of any assistance in an American election?” Maybe the average person will have heard somewhere that it has something to do with Joe Biden. Great! Let’s look at the part of the transcript from the phone call as it pertains to the former vice president.
Trump: “[T]here’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it … It sounds horrible to me.”
The average person, who Democrats think should understand the severity of this “transgression” in a pinch, needs to know about this “prosecution” business, why Trump thought it was so “horrible,” and how it relates to Biden. But this is the point where Democrats think everything should end.
No, no, average person! You don’t need to know any more about that. Just look at the phone call. Isn’t it bad?!
Assuming the average person agrees to drop that line of questioning and loses all curiosity about what Hunter Biden was up to in Ukraine, he still needs to know what any of this has to do with the 2020 election. The transcript says nothing about the election, which, at the time of the phone call, was still a year and four months away.
So this is the case for impeachment that Democrats believe to be a home run. Isn’t it easy to understand?
