Speaking of impeachment... article today on American Thinker about a lengthy article ("HOW TRUMP COULD GET FIRED" in The New Yorker) containing quotes from Dems AND Republicans about cutting short Trump's term of office. Such analysis, if accurate, would reinforce the "Uniparty" hypothesis explaining what we are currently seeing in D.C.
Donald J. Trump: Our very own innovative armed prophet?http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/donald_j_trump_our_very_own_innovative_armed_prophet.htmlExcerpts:
Evan Osnos has a rather long article in the May 8 issue of The New Yorker, titled "What would it take to cut short Trump's presidency?"
This sort of question is second nature to leftists, who are always on the lookout for ways and means to bring Republican presidential terms to an abrupt halt – or, stated differently, but no less accurately, to overturn election results, just as the left is fond of rushing to courts to undo the legislative acts of duly-elected lawmakers, or state referenda. For the left, elections are merely one aspect of the political process and not at all dispositive concerning the "consent of the governed." For the left, the "consent of the governed" carries little weight except insofar as that consent coincides with leftist aims.
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Machiavelli is not cited in the lengthy Osnos article. Perhaps, however, Machiavelli, in chapter 6 of The Prince, tells us what is really going on with the massive monolithic media maelstrom unleashed at the Trump presidency – an explanation that includes insight into "lukewarm" defense accorded President Trump by congressional Republicans:
"It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to manage, or more doubtful of success, or more dangerous to handle than to take the lead in introducing a new order of things. For the innovator has enemies in all those who are doing well under the old order, and he has only lukewarm defenders in all those who would do well under the new order. This lukewarmness arises partly from fear of their adversaries who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men who do not truly believe in new things until they have had solid experience of them. Thus it happens that whenever his enemies have the opportunity to attack the innovator, they do so with the zeal of partisans, and the others only defend him tepidly, so that he, together with them, is put in danger."