Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again

[FriscoKid]

The following Op-Ed was recently published in the Wall Street Journal by a staunch conservative:
 

Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again
 

It’s already in the cards thanks to his ill-founded trade war, no matter how that war plays out.

 

By  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

April 11, 2025 5:32 pm ET

 

This week the system worked. Donald Trump blinked. The unwinding is still just beginning. It will be painful and tumultuous. A grief-filled fight lies ahead over whether his trade actions have even been legal and constitutional.

 

Many slips between cup and lip are to be expected. China and the U.S. are rushing toward an unplanned total stoppage of trade. The bond market is signaling a potentially dangerous combustion with America’s unaddressed fiscal-sustainability challenge.

 

The courts will come into play, albeit cautiously if judges and justices believe U.S.-China negotiations by then are pointing toward an exit ramp, justifying a bit of presidential leeway for national-security reasons.

 

A future Trump impeachment seemed all but guaranteed by last Wednesday morning. It seems only slightly less likely now. It may even be desirable to restore America’s standing with creditors and trade partners.

 

As sacrilegious as the comparison will seem, Mr. Trump faced a problem Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt solved by dying once their greatest achievements were in the bag. Mr. Trump great achievement was his 2024 re-election, a rebuke to the injustices and insults meted out to him and his fans since 2016, some of which were even real. However, no consensus or even significant coalition exists for trying to force into existence a new American “golden age” with tariffs, which anyway is like asking a chicken to give birth to a lioness. He invented this mission out of his own confused intuition.

 

Of the outcomes still in the cards, the least-bad now may be the Trump proposal on which I bestowed a lefthanded Kewpie doll last year: a universal, nondiscriminatory 10% import tax. It faintly resembles a consumption tax (or a carbon tax). If Mr. Trump can then pivot away from his trade-war dysphoria to domestic tax and regulatory reform, his presidency may yet be saved.

 

With floods devastating his northern counties, Kentucky’s Gov. Andy Beshear has been making TV rounds lately. Americans see an attractive and sane Democrat who might have sought and won his party’s nomination in the completely different 2024 election we could have had.

 

November’s outcome, remember, tells us only how voters reacted to a binary choice. In fact, polls show most voters thought it was a lousy choice. Hence history’s most risible irony: Nobody stands to benefit more now than Joe Biden if the Trump presidency can avoid complete disaster. At least posterity would then have less incentive to dwell on how Joe and Jill threw America under a bus with their craving for a second term.

 

Historian and author Niall Ferguson this week chose the adjective “full retard” for Trump trade policy. I go with “neurotic” for the word’s wider applicability to any leader who, lacking a clear bead on his times, fabricates a gratuitously ambitious mission to meet his misguided sense of importance.

 

The phenomenon is more intrinsic to politics than we might think. Vladimir Putin is a current example. Bill and Hillary Clinton’s first-term grand healthcare scheme nearly broke his presidency. What if Roosevelt had been gifted with 83 rather than 63 years? So many elites were subsisting on his coattails practically from birth, the systemic pressure to invent an agenda to justify a fifth, sixth, seventh term would have been immense. Notice how even the desultory Biden crowd still shapes our country’s trajectory with their clinging to office.

 

Nobody in Mr. Trump’s orbit actually shares his belief in the magical efficacy of tariffs because it makes sense only in a world that doesn’t exist, where other countries don’t retaliate. That’s why you can expect his aides soon to be hinting sotto voce that his China tariffs are really about “leverage” to pressure Beijing to help out on Ukraine.

 

The founders never anticipated today’s instantly responsive trillion-dollar financial markets. And yet these markets neatly adumbrate the founders’ scheme of checks and balances, also known as feedback. Mr. Trump, still sane enough to appreciate what’s good for Mr. Trump, listened this week to their feedback. May he continue to do so.

 

The left’s picture of a proto-dictator never really meshed with his nature as a flighty glutton for attention. Mr. Trump’s politics aren’t poll-based or policy-based. They aren’t strategic. They are ratings-based. From the moment he appeared in 2015, he was a democratic accident waiting to happen for exactly this reason. The wild card that couldn’t be foreseen was the lying, cowardice and self-discrediting of his opponents, especially the press, which afforded him an improbable legitimacy he never would have obtained otherwise.

 

Might something valuable yet come from this accident? As Zhou Enlai was misunderstood to say about the French Revolution, it’s too soon to tell. Ask me in 150 years.

 

Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-wants-to-be-impeached-again-6f4ea931

[Harrisfan]

Trump on the brain

 Get a life

[FriscoKid]

1 minute ago, Harrisfan said:

Trump on the brain

 Get a life

Projecting. Kettle black. 

[stevenl]

Trump will ignore the SC on his deportations. That's cause for impeachment.

[short-Timer]

19 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Trump will ignore the SC on his deportations. That's cause for impeachment.

I do wonder where that will lead. 

[SunnyinBangrak]

1 hour ago, FriscoKid said:

The following Op-Ed was recently published in the Wall Street Journal by a staunch conservative:
 

Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again
 

It’s already in the cards thanks to his ill-founded trade war, no matter how that war plays out.

 

By  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

April 11, 2025 5:32 pm ET

 

This week the system worked. Donald Trump blinked. The unwinding is still just beginning. It will be painful and tumultuous. A grief-filled fight lies ahead over whether his trade actions have even been legal and constitutional.

 

Many slips between cup and lip are to be expected. China and the U.S. are rushing toward an unplanned total stoppage of trade. The bond market is signaling a potentially dangerous combustion with America’s unaddressed fiscal-sustainability challenge.

 

The courts will come into play, albeit cautiously if judges and justices believe U.S.-China negotiations by then are pointing toward an exit ramp, justifying a bit of presidential leeway for national-security reasons.

 

A future Trump impeachment seemed all but guaranteed by last Wednesday morning. It seems only slightly less likely now. It may even be desirable to restore America’s standing with creditors and trade partners.

 

As sacrilegious as the comparison will seem, Mr. Trump faced a problem Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt solved by dying once their greatest achievements were in the bag. Mr. Trump great achievement was his 2024 re-election, a rebuke to the injustices and insults meted out to him and his fans since 2016, some of which were even real. However, no consensus or even significant coalition exists for trying to force into existence a new American “golden age” with tariffs, which anyway is like asking a chicken to give birth to a lioness. He invented this mission out of his own confused intuition.

 

Of the outcomes still in the cards, the least-bad now may be the Trump proposal on which I bestowed a lefthanded Kewpie doll last year: a universal, nondiscriminatory 10% import tax. It faintly resembles a consumption tax (or a carbon tax). If Mr. Trump can then pivot away from his trade-war dysphoria to domestic tax and regulatory reform, his presidency may yet be saved.

 

With floods devastating his northern counties, Kentucky’s Gov. Andy Beshear has been making TV rounds lately. Americans see an attractive and sane Democrat who might have sought and won his party’s nomination in the completely different 2024 election we could have had.

 

November’s outcome, remember, tells us only how voters reacted to a binary choice. In fact, polls show most voters thought it was a lousy choice. Hence history’s most risible irony: Nobody stands to benefit more now than Joe Biden if the Trump presidency can avoid complete disaster. At least posterity would then have less incentive to dwell on how Joe and Jill threw America under a bus with their craving for a second term.

 

Historian and author Niall Ferguson this week chose the adjective “full retard” for Trump trade policy. I go with “neurotic” for the word’s wider applicability to any leader who, lacking a clear bead on his times, fabricates a gratuitously ambitious mission to meet his misguided sense of importance.

 

The phenomenon is more intrinsic to politics than we might think. Vladimir Putin is a current example. Bill and Hillary Clinton’s first-term grand healthcare scheme nearly broke his presidency. What if Roosevelt had been gifted with 83 rather than 63 years? So many elites were subsisting on his coattails practically from birth, the systemic pressure to invent an agenda to justify a fifth, sixth, seventh term would have been immense. Notice how even the desultory Biden crowd still shapes our country’s trajectory with their clinging to office.

 

Nobody in Mr. Trump’s orbit actually shares his belief in the magical efficacy of tariffs because it makes sense only in a world that doesn’t exist, where other countries don’t retaliate. That’s why you can expect his aides soon to be hinting sotto voce that his China tariffs are really about “leverage” to pressure Beijing to help out on Ukraine.

 

The founders never anticipated today’s instantly responsive trillion-dollar financial markets. And yet these markets neatly adumbrate the founders’ scheme of checks and balances, also known as feedback. Mr. Trump, still sane enough to appreciate what’s good for Mr. Trump, listened this week to their feedback. May he continue to do so.

 

The left’s picture of a proto-dictator never really meshed with his nature as a flighty glutton for attention. Mr. Trump’s politics aren’t poll-based or policy-based. They aren’t strategic. They are ratings-based. From the moment he appeared in 2015, he was a democratic accident waiting to happen for exactly this reason. The wild card that couldn’t be foreseen was the lying, cowardice and self-discrediting of his opponents, especially the press, which afforded him an improbable legitimacy he never would have obtained otherwise.

 

Might something valuable yet come from this accident? As Zhou Enlai was misunderstood to say about the French Revolution, it’s too soon to tell. Ask me in 150 years.

 

Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-wants-to-be-impeached-again-6f4ea931

Can you remind us what the 2 other hoax impeachments were for, and how it all ended🤣

[FriscoKid]

 

[rough diamond]

55 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Can you remind us what the 2 other hoax impeachments were for, and how it all ended🤣

Wait till mid terms!!

[save the frogs]

13 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

Historian and author Niall Ferguson this week chose the adjective “full retard” for Trump trade policy.

 

haha, full retard.

like some posters on AN maybe. 

 

[FriscoKid]

11 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

haha, full retard.

like some posters on AN maybe. 

 

Congratulations, at least half on-topic, for once. 

[JAG]

"Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again

"

There may be something in that, after all, one of the more practiced of Trump's scenarios, and one which I suspect he is always happy to fall back on, is as the innocent party whose success is under attack from a variety of "nasty" people, bodies and groups.

[JimHuaHin]

12 hours ago, short-Timer said:

I do wonder where that will lead. 

How about a trial for treason, for Trump and all his administration?

[Tug]

I’m not so sure I think he might be bucking for martyrdom but impeachment and prison suits me just fine.

[Tug]

12 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Can you remind us what the 2 other hoax impeachments were for, and how it all ended🤣

Sure the first was for trying to extort Ukraine 100% true the phone call we all heard it no hoax.the second was the attempted coup’s we all saw heard and witnessed it not a hoax….the problem is the spineless republicans who are to cowardly to do their jobs,it is what it is.

[Gsxrnz]

Who is John Galt? 

[FlorC]

Yes he is not doing a good job. 3 months in and no arrests , no heads rolls

for all the crimes of the previous administration.

[short-Timer]

7 hours ago, JimHuaHin said:

How about a trial for treason, for Trump and all his administration?

Perfect. I'm here for it. 

[SunnyinBangrak]

7 hours ago, Tug said:

Sure the first was for trying to extort Ukraine 100% true the phone call we all heard it no hoax.the second was the attempted coup’s we all saw heard and witnessed it not a hoax….the problem is the spineless republicans who are to cowardly to do their jobs,it is what it is.

??? So it was Trump now that withheld a billion smackers until the prosecutor investigating Butisma was fired now? Jeez....words fsil me

[Real Name Hidden]

8 hours ago, JimHuaHin said:

How about a trial for treason, for Trump and all his administration?

 

[stevenl]

24 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

??? So it was Trump now that withheld a billion smackers until the prosecutor investigating Butisma was fired now? Jeez....words fsil me

Are deliberately lying or oblivious to the truth?