OPINION
Impeachment hurts the nation more than anything Trump did
By Rich Lowry
January 23, 2020 | 8:41pm | Updated
Donald Trump
AP
It’s easy to forget what President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial is supposed to be about. It isn’t a fight over whether the Senate will call a couple of witnesses that the House couldn’t, or didn’t bother to, obtain on its own.
The underlying question is whether the United States Senate will impose the most severe sanction it has ever inflicted on any chief executive, voting to remove a president for the first time in the history of the country and doing it about 10 months from his re-election bid.
This is a truly radical step that, if it ever came about, would do more damage to the legitimacy of our political system than President Trump’s underlying offense ever could.
If Trump were actually convicted, the 2020 election would proceed under a cloud of illegitimacy. Tens of millions of Trump voters wouldn’t accept the result. They would see it as an inside job to deny the incumbent president a chance to run for re-election, without a single voter having a direct say.
The GOP would be brought to its knees by internal blood-letting, a prospect that Democrats surely would welcome, especially given that it would deliver them the presidency. Republicans would be out for revenge, and instead of a halcyon return to normalcy, our politics would be even more poisonous than before.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/impeachment-was-the-wrong-way-to-go-even-if-trump-is-guilty/
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