{"id":12008,"date":"2019-10-01T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12008"},"modified":"2019-09-30T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:08:54","slug":"impeachment-coup-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/impeachment-coup-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment Coup Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from the emotional issue that Democrats, NeverTrumpers, and celebrities loathe Donald Trump, recently Representative Al Green (D-Texas) reminded us why the Democrats are trying to impeach the president rather than just defeat him in the 2020 general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo defeat him at the polls would do history a disservice, would do our nation a disservice,\u201d Green said.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m concerned that if we don\u2019t impeach the president, he will get re-elected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Translated, that means Green accepts either that Trump\u2019s record is too formidable or that the agendas of his own party\u2019s presidential candidates are too frightening for the American people to elect one of them. And that possibility is simply not permissible. Thus, impeachment is the only mechanism left to abort an eight-year Trump presidency\u2014on a purely partisan vote to preclude an election, and thus contrary to the outlines of impeachment as set out by the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider it another way: Why is it that the House is controlled by Democrats, yet its leadership is&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>pushing through any of the policy proposals voiced so openly on the Democratic primary stage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/09\/29\/impeachment-coup-analytics\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Aside from the emotional issue that Democrats, NeverTrumpers, and celebrities loathe Donald Trump, recently Representative Al Green (D-Texas) reminded us why the Democrats are trying to impeach the president rather than just defeat him in the 2020 general election. \u201cTo defeat him at the polls would do history a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12078,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-hatred-that-fuels-impeachment\/","url_meta":{"origin":12008,"position":0},"title":"The Hatred that Fuels Impeachment","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Neither the NeverTrump Right nor the Progressive Left has yet offered a coherent defense of their\u00a0de facto, three-year-long singular effort to delegitimize and ultimately remove Trump from office before the 2020 election. 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Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12074,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/20-impeachment-what-ifs\/","url_meta":{"origin":12008,"position":5},"title":"20 Impeachment What-Ifs","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The Democrats might have had a more persuasive case for impeachment if only\u2026 1) Donald Trump had cut off all military assistance to Ukraine. 2) Donald Trump got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired by leveraging U.S. aid. 3) Barack Obama earlier had not vetoed lethal\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12009,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions\/12009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}