[rad-green] By impeaching Trump, Democrats have made him more powerful than they could ever imagine

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*Defend Democracy Press          19 Dec 2019*

*By impeaching Trump, Democrats have made him more powerful than they could
ever imagine*


*By Nebojsa Malicsenior writer at RT*

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From coast to coast, the Resistance is cheering the impeachment of
President Donald Trump in the House. They shouldn’t be. For in seeking to
destroy him, they have only made him more powerful, and undercut themselves.

Let’s not mince words: Wednesday’s vote was the culmination of efforts that
began on November 8, 2016, with Trump’s shocking triumph over Hillary
Clinton – or maybe even before, on whatever date the FBI actually began
investigating the Trump campaign for *“Russian collusion”* per accusations
coming from Democrats.

All those paths, from *“emoluments”* and *“Hamilton electors,”* via the
ill-fated Mueller Report into *“Russiagate,”* to the “whistleblower”
complaint about the Ukraine phone call, they all converged on this
inevitable conclusion. The actual *“high crimes or misdemeanors”* never
mattered – or materialized, really – all anyone needed to do is repeat the
mantra, Orange Man Bad.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California) wore black and intoned
about sadness and solemnity of the day for the American Republic and its
importance for *“our democracy.”* It was a bonfire of hypocrisies, as the
party that has spent years denouncing everything about America – its flag,
anthem, founders, and even the political system – now claiming to be
defending it all from the *“clear and present danger”* Trump somehow
represented.

Even now, it is unclear what they sought to accomplish. There is no
indication that the Republican-majority Senate will actually vote to
convict the president and remove him from office – and the Democrats know
this. Nor is being impeached going to somehow disqualify Trump from being
on the ballot in 2020, no matter what some *“Republican”* commentators on
MSNBC and CNN may argue.

If the plan was to sabotage Trump’s second-term campaign, it seems to have
backfired spectacularly. With every hearing before the Intelligence or
Judiciary Committee, the public support for impeachment actually decreased.
Even CNN
<https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/18/politics/impeachment-polling-donald-trump/index.html>
was
forced to admit the existence of *“growing evidence that the public
impeachment proceedings in the House against Trump may actually be helping
him politically.”*

Indeed, what better way for Trump to solidify his bona fides as the
populist outsider than to be impeached by the coastal elites and the
Washington Swamp, in what amounted to a nakedly partisan process?

Even then, Democrats and their friends in the media pressed on, rejecting
the evidence before their own eyes in favor of feelings and beliefs
<https://www.rt.com/usa/476134-maxine-waters-russiagate-facts-cult/>. Those
democrats who voted against the inquiry and defected to the GOP? Why, they
are just on the *“wrong side of history,”* that’s all.

*“We have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of
history,”* declared
Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia), hours into what passed for debate on
the House floor. It was a telling choice of phrase.

With everything else being a long shot or highly unlikely, tarnishing
Trump’s name in history books may be the last remaining gambit. After all,
the House has only impeached three presidents over the 240-year history of
the United States: Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and now Trump.

Oh sure, none of them were convicted in the Senate or forced out of office,
and Clinton’s impeachment doesn’t seem to have stopped Democrats from
holding him in high regard. That’s because the media, academia and
Hollywood write US history, though – and two guesses as to whom they
overwhelmingly support.

That calculus may be as premature as their confidence in Hillary Clinton’s
victory on the morning of Election Day 2016, however. For all of Trump’s
many failings, he has something akin to a superpower: his presence forces
everyone to show their true colors, friends and foes alike.

Trump never gets tired of pointing out the accomplishments of his
administration: jobs, stock market growth, trade deals, etc. He did so
again, in a scathing letter to Pelosi on Impeachment Eve, contrasting that
to her party’s *“open war on American Democracy.”* However, the end of his
six-page letter shows that he is fully aware of the Democrats’ gambit,
bringing it out in the open: he wrote it not because he expected them to
see reason but *“for the purpose of history” *and to create a* “permanent
and indelible record*.”

It is said that history is written by the winners. That’s almost true. It
is made by the winners, but written by the loud. Trump is a real-estate
developer and reality TV star who talked his way into the White House
against two major political dynasties – Clinton and Bush – and both the
Republican and Democrat establishments; through a gauntlet of US
intelligence agencies, as it turns out; and in the face of near-unanimous
opposition from the media.

So his impeachment is indeed a historic moment – just not in the way his
enemies think.

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