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Impeach Trump? The United States is now in uncharted waters | Geoffrey Kabaservice theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2/ The question Never Trumpers like Republican historian have to answer, rather than fingering their worry beads and clutching their pearls, is this: is it the responsibility of the political elite to maintain the Constitution and the unwritten norms that make democracy possible?
3/ If yes, if the danger to the Constitution is grave enough, do they not have the constitutional duty and moral duty to defend it, whatever the costs? I was inspired as a boy by JFK--that we would pay any price, bear any burden to maintain freedom. Faced with Trump and his
4/ regime of criminals, pillagers, and rampagers, was JFK wrong? Do we defend the Constitution, but only if low-interest, low-information suburbanites arouse themselves and think the rule of law, accountability, and the separation of powers are important? The worst part of the
5/ Mueller report was its Hamlet-like approach to federal law. He made Americans think you could look at breaches of the law and simply engage in foggy, fuzzy thinking in order to make them go away. And yet, Trump's law breaking is there in plain sight. And here we are. Trump is
6/ now bragging about what he did, and historians like Kabaservice can avert their eyes and fail to summon the courage to run towards danger.
