I am writing to my members of Congress, urging them to support to impeach and remove President Donald J. Trump. It would only take a few courageous Republican members of Congress to honor their oath to the Constitution and begin the rescue of our country from a fascist regime.
Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and to everyone, not just immigrants or foreign students. This statement is not just true, it’s an understatement. Trump is a danger to democracy in the same way as an active fire is a danger to a building.
We’re told that impeachment would be a distraction from the necessary work of Congress. But if Trump represents an ongoing, persistent, and present danger to our democracy, then Congress has no other business but impeachment, just as workers at the top of the building on fire have no other business but escape, and firefighters no other business but extinguishing the fire.
I once thought that impeachment was merely a largely ineffectual gesture to censor some presidential action. I was told that the Democrats do not have the votes to remove Trump, and that regular failed impeachment will desensitize the population to the severity of impeachment.
However, I have changed my view.
- If Trump is an ongoing, persistent and present danger to our democracy, impeachment is not an idle gesture, it is a sworn duty. Firefighters do no fight fires because success is assured. They do it because it is their job and their duty.
- Failure to impeach desensitizes the population to danger. When a president does something wrong and is not impeached, it becomes something a president is allowed to do.
- Impeachment is the remedy available to Congress; it can be done as often as needed.
There really is a fire in our building. We really are on the top floor. It is time to pull the fire alarm while something remains to save.
Nan Johnson
Liberalism is a mental disorder.