Trump is manifestly guilty of the biggest political crime in modern American history: inciting a terrorist attack on the First Branch to stop it from enacting the Constitutional transfer of power. The impeachment trial has conclusively proven it, if you were still in any doubt, given that the insurrection played out live in the media … Read more
Could it be? Is it finally happening? (albeit 5 years too late, IMHO). Reuters reports, Exclusive: Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party: Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are … Read more
Has it been 7 years since I first joined the good folks here at Blog for Arizona? It was Feb. 11, 2014 and here it is, seven years later. A year ago we were all frenzied and working overtime, aiming for the Democratic primaries to select our new leader, to challenge the incumbent Republican US … Read more
Molly Jong-Fast at The Daily Beast succinctly sums up what is at stake in this impeachment trial: [I]mpeachment no longer feels like a punishment for Trump so much as a necessity for democracy. Either things matter or they don’t. Either Congress says armed insurrections are not OK and protects the principle and practice of a … Read more
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) writes at the Washington Post, My fellow Republicans, convicting Trump is necessary to save America: Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” All Americans, but especially my fellow Republicans, should remember this wisdom during the Senate’s trial of former president Donald Trump. … Read more