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The House is right to open a formal impeachment inquiry. As Benjamin Franklin told us: we have a Republic, "If [we] can keep it." It is our duty as Americans to honor that obligation and this is the step President Trump has forced on us to do that. But let us remember... /1
...Donald Trump’s admission that he used the American presidency to pressure a foreign government to interfere in an American election is not his first impeachable offense, it is merely the latest... /2
The racism.
The misogyny.
The corruption.
The stoking of hatred and violence.
The praise for dictators.
The disinformation and lying to the American people.
The attacks on our public servants.
The political interference in the enforcement of the law and ... /3
The misogyny.
The corruption.
The stoking of hatred and violence.
The praise for dictators.
The disinformation and lying to the American people.
The attacks on our public servants.
The political interference in the enforcement of the law and ... /3
... the obstruction of justice.
The attacks on our First Amendment.
The subversion of our Separation of Powers.
The attempts to delegitimize elections.
The near constant violations of his oath of office... /4
The attacks on our First Amendment.
The subversion of our Separation of Powers.
The attempts to delegitimize elections.
The near constant violations of his oath of office... /4
Enough. Impeachment is the remedy our Constitution provides for when a President engages in “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The House is right to begin that process. But... /5
... Congress must do more than just open formal Impeachment proceedings. Because Donald Trump is merely a symptom of a more dangerous phenomenon sweeping the world: the rise of autocratic strongmen who are attempting to dismantle representative democracies... /6
... The Trump era in America has exposed that our democracy has vulnerabilities, and it has laid bare many of the long-standing imperfections in our democracy that have caused people to lose faith in it... /7
... We would fail this moment if we did not address these underlying problems as well. @Protctdemocracy has proposed a set of reforms designed to fix many of the vulnerabilities Trump has exposed and improve our democracy for future generations... /8 protectdemocracy.org/roadmap-for-re…
... Congress must act on these reforms, lest we leave ourselves vulnerable to another Trump rising in the future -- a Trump 2.0 who is more competent than the current autocrat in the White House and able to more effectively dismantle our system of government... /9
Our Constitution calls on the Senate to try cases of impeachment. But at the end of the day, the ultimate jurors are We The People. The House should conduct its inquiry, lay out the evidence, and vote on articles. Then the American people can render an ultimate verdict. /end
