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babylonsister

(171,070 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2019, 12:20 PM Feb 2019

Princeton Historians: Democrats Must Impeach Trump to 'Heal the Nation'

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/04/princeton-historians-democrats-must-impeach-trump-to-heal-the-nation.html

Posted on Mon, Feb 4th, 2019 by Leo Vidal
Princeton Historians: Democrats Must Impeach Trump to ‘Heal the Nation’

Two experts from Princeton University published an article this morning in USA Today saying that Democrats must immediately take action to impeach Donald Trump. If they don’t, they wrote, the president may do irreparable harm to our democracy.

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The writers concluded their op-ed by asking that Democrats take immediate steps to right decades of historical wrongs. They could do this by drawing a line at Trump’s illegal and treasonous behavior. They should do everything in their power to prevent Trump from escaping justice.

“As evidence continues to mount about all that President Trump and his advisers have done to violate the public trust, Democrats won’t have much choice,” they wrote. “If they want to heal the nation, not just for what’s happened under Trump but also for what’s happened in the decades before, they should make sure that wrongdoing is set right.”

The truth is that Donald Trump, his children, and his cronies and business associates are “elites” who have escaped justice for years. If Trump is not held accountable for his crimes, then Vladimir Putin will have succeeded in his primary goal: to undermine faith in American democracy.

Democrats in Congress are now in a position to prevent this from happening, and they must be sure that everything they do is focused on this number one goal: saving the country from the damage done by Donald Trump.

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Princeton Historians: Democrats Must Impeach Trump to 'Heal the Nation' (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2019 OP

Another article about how it is incumbent upon upstanding democrats to make things right. ffr Feb 2019 #1

+1,000 malaise Feb 2019 #2

If the Dems don't bring impeachment charges they lose the moral argument bigbrother05 Feb 2019 #3

Agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY! Raster Feb 2019 #4

More to the point...to SAVE the nation. N/T Guilded Lilly Feb 2019 #5

So Repubs aren't being called on to do likewise? Kind of lets them off the hook, doesn't it? Hekate Feb 2019 #6

ffr

(22,670 posts)

1. Another article about how it is incumbent upon upstanding democrats to make things right.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 12:25 PM

Feb 2019

Where is the outrage at how Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan turned their noses and still Mitch is 100% complicit with the crimes and evil being perpetrated by the people in the oval office?

Democrats alone can't waltz these emboldened criminals out of office. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango. And the KGOP is complicit in this criminal enterprise.

If Trump and Pence aren't impeached and convicted, we should hold republicans to account for the rest of our lives.

malaise

(269,044 posts)

2. +1,000

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 12:26 PM

Feb 2019

ITTMF!!!

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)

3. If the Dems don't bring impeachment charges they lose the moral argument

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 12:47 PM

Feb 2019

The general public will see them as being in on the scam as well. The "both sides" chorus will paint the Dems with the same broad brush.

If the GOP refuses to help the Dems convict in the Senate, they will be seen as complicit and likely take a bigger hit than after Nixon's pardon.