The Terrible Truth Is That Trump Will Not Be Removed Through Impeachment

There is no rational and informed person who believes that even if the House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump that the Republican-fascist controlled Senate will reach the 67 votes to convict him that would remove him from office.  As things stand removal of Donald Trump would result in the likely criminal and totally incompetent and sleazy fascist Mike Pence taking the presidency and choosing a Vice President who you can be certain will be at least as bad as he is so to impeach Trump would be an exercise in futility. 

Under the United States the impeachment of even the most criminal of presidents is one of a number of widely believed in Constitutional myths.   That is especially true if by "impeachment" you ignorantly believe they will be removed from office and punished.   That has never happened with a president, the only time that the threat of impeachment resulted in the removal of Nixon, that depended on a far different Republican caucus in the Senate, one which contained patriots who had fought fascism and who don't aspire to fascist, one-party governance in the United States.  I can't think of any Republican Senators like that, today, there weren't all that many back then. 

The people who will, I guarantee you, rail against House Democrats who are realistic about the futility and danger of impeaching the most massively incompetent and lavishly criminal* person to hold it in our history, Donald Trump, are too childish to know the reality that impeachment is just another of those dumb ideas that came with the Constitutional system that was set up by the deified "founders".   In countries with a parliamentary system, in some countries, governments have fallen through things such as lack of confidence votes which sends the question back to voters.  The founders, eager to consult The People as seldom as possible, to give them only limited direct influence in the government, put the then unelected Senate in charge of stopping the impeachment of even a criminal president, setting the bar so high that even if Nixon had been impeached, we don't know if he would have been convicted in the Senate and removed from office.  It's a virtual certainty that the degenerate Republican Party of 2019, on the eve of an election, would not vote to remove Trump from office no matter how criminal or insane or even treasonous he is. 

People clamoring for Democrats to impeach Trump should grow up and face the awful truth, he might be forced to leave through means not mentioned in the Constitution,  danger to his fortune, his brand, perhaps his daughter perhaps maybe his sons being imprisoned might get him to leave - I find it more credible that he would successfully set off a bloodbath by his automatic weapons armed cult followers.   It's not Nancy Pelosi's fault it's the fault of Madison and Hamilton and John Jay,  etc.  It's the fault of the succeeding generations that didn't admit that that Constitution is fundamentally flawed and failed to get rid of the Electoral College and the anti-democratically constituted Senate.  They did manage to get Senators elected, perhaps that kept us from getting to the terrible place we're in now.  I think the ability of billionaires to misinform a margin of voters and to, in other ways, ratfuck elections has swamped that modest early 20th century reform.  The Senate we have now is as bad as any in our history.  The court is as bad as the worst and it will soon be worse.  Constitutional anti-realists who believe it will remove Trump will soon have far worse to deal with, they should wake up now and get used to the terrible truth.

*  I would remind you that Nixon illegally expanded the war in Vietnam into Cambodia, something which resulted in, literally, millions of deaths.  Despite that the articles of impeachment that dealt with that, Nixon's most terrible crime, wasn't passed in the House committee.  Face that sobering truth of history and what it tells us about the American political system and our character.   If the victims had been White Europeans I have little doubt that they'd have passed.