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•The Atlantic’s David Frum on Republicans’ (factually incorrect) calls for due process:

In case you have forgotten, President Due Process urged police to bang arrested suspects’ heads against car doors. President Due Process urged the death penalty for people who invoke the Whistleblower statute.

President Due Process urged forms of torture ‘a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding’ against persons suspected of terrorism. President Due Process speculated that ‘second amendment people’ should assassinate Hillary Clinton.

President Due Process not only urged but *did* ban travel to the United States on the basis of religious faith. And look finally — this impeachment is taking place precisely because President Due Process tried corruptly to muscle a dependent country to launch a bogus show trial against President Due Process’s most likely campaign opponent in 2020.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/opinion/trump-impeachment-republicans.html

Impeached

Trump, Jesus Christ and Pearl Harbor.

He was impeached on only two counts, but President Trump has violated his oath of office in so many other ways as well — lying constantly, obstructing justice, encouraging criminal behavior, corruptly profiting off his office, refusing to defend the United States against foreign attacks and more.

What did congressional Republicans have to say in response yesterday, as they voted unanimously against impeachment? It was like bad satire. They compared Trump’s impeachment both to Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor that killed more than 2,400 Americans. Trump, at a Michigan rally last night, offered his usual childish insults, including one about a recently deceased member of Congress who had represented Michigan for six decades.

I tend generally toward optimism, but this is a dark moment for America. And 2020 will be a very important year.