Descending To Traitors

IT HAS LONG SINCE BECOME OBVIOUS to any dispassionate observer that a comprehensive investigation into the president's behavior, perhaps leading to impeachment, is not only appropriate, it is necessary. regrettably, dispassionate observers appear to be extinct, nor gravely endangered. Members and former members of the Trump administration have come forth and given damning testimony to Congress, including Trump chief of Staff Mulvaney, Ambassador Taylor, and others. There are more to com, and soon the public will see the entire proceedings. All the testimony is clear: the president attempted to use the promise of military assistance to gain damaging information on his primary political opponent. Mr. Mulvaney explicitly stated this, then asked: "What's wrong with doing that?" Damage control propagandists have since been flocking to the talking head televisions programs, using desperate tactics, denials, and lies. The Trump administration members who testified have been accused of being "never Trumpers"; and their testimony has been twisted by the Trump propagandists to claim that the president never made any bribes or offers, and was merely conducting lawful routine inquiry into corruption in foreign countries, ad a prerequisite for receiving assistance. The inquiries focused on Joe Biden quite by chance. Trump supporters are drinking it like sugar free Kool Aid with artificial sweetener. It would behoove them to ask themselves what their attitude would be if a Clinton or an Obama behaved exactly like Trump. Everyone knows the answer. It is no longer possible to defend trump by using facts; only a web of fabrications can be used to defend his behavior. Assertions by Trump supporters that Trump's political opponents have been trying to impeach this president since his inauguration are quite correct. Impeachment was appropriate within minutes after he took the oath of office, at which point he was massively in violation of the emoluments clause. The propaganda machine necessary to offer a defense of Trump is and has thus become Goebbels-like in its distorted, dishonest proportions. Trump's supporters, with less to lose and more desperate every day, are now beginning to open proclaim their racism, their contempt for the rule of law, and their willingness to go to extreme measure, including violence, to prevent Trump's impeachment and removal. Trump himself has hinted that he might be willing to circumvent the political system to remain in office indefinitely, and none of his supporters offer even the slightest hint of disapproval. The now obvious fact that Trump's dealings with the Ukrainian president render him an outright traitor is of no concern to his gangster supporters, because, the truth is, they are traitors too.