{"id":12020,"date":"2019-10-14T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12020"},"modified":"2019-10-14T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T18:56:18","slug":"the-strategies-of-targeting-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-strategies-of-targeting-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strategies of Targeting Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no logical Democratic explanation for impeaching Donald Trump. The various factions within the Democratic Party calling for impeachment are united only by their loathing of Donald Trump, the person, and his systematic repeal of the Obama progressive project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After failing with the voting machine gambit, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment, the emoluments clause, the McCabe-Rosenstein faux-coup, the Comey memos farce, the \u201cresistance\u201d efforts outlined by the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;anonymous op-ed writer, the campaign finance violations accusations, Stormy, tax returns, whistleblowers, leakers, the Mueller 22 months charade, and now impeachment 2.0, what exactly is the point of impeaching Trump just 13 months before the election?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the various rationales behind Trump\u2019s Democratic and leftwing opponents\u2019 latest \u201cwhistleblower\u201d hoax. None of these scenarios are mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Primal Scream?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There doesn\u2019t have to be a point to impeachment. Democrats loathe Trump. That is enough. They would have impeached him on day one of his presidency before he set foot in the White House but they did not have control of the House. Now they do, so they can. Who cares whether he is convicted in the Senate? House members just want to go on record that they impeached him and put an asterisk on his presidency at worst, and at best drive his polls down to prevent his reelection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/10\/13\/the-strategies-of-targeting-trump\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There is no logical Democratic explanation for impeaching Donald Trump. The various factions within the Democratic Party calling for impeachment are united only by their loathing of Donald Trump, the person, and his systematic repeal of the Obama progressive project. After failing with the voting machine gambit, the Logan [&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-37S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12116,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/impeachment-fallouts\/","url_meta":{"origin":12020,"position":0},"title":"Impeachment Fallouts","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 7, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Impeachment is shaping up as unpredictably explosive, but not in the way imagined. There are lots of things that we do know about the present impeachment of Donald Trump \u2014 and we know that there are even more areas that remain unknown. Quietly, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12796,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/an-impeachment-incitement\/","url_meta":{"origin":12020,"position":1},"title":"An Impeachment Incitement","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 21, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump was impeached again on Wednesday, a week before leaving office in one of the great travesties of modern politics. Here are reasons why the exercise proved a farce. One, impeachment was never intended by the founders to become a serial effort to\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11854,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-has-become-the-democrats-great-white-whale\/","url_meta":{"origin":12020,"position":2},"title":"Trump Has Become the Democrats\u2019 Great White Whale","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness One way of envisioning the Democratic obsessions with Donald Trump is as an addiction. We have seen the initial impeachment efforts; the attempt to get him under the emoluments clause, the Logan Act and the 25th Amendment; the Russian collusion hoax; the Mueller investigation;\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":12008,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/impeachment-coup-analytics\/","url_meta":{"origin":12020,"position":3},"title":"Impeachment Coup Analytics","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12055,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-reasons-why-impeachment-is-illegitimate\/","url_meta":{"origin":12020,"position":4},"title":"Ten Reasons Why Impeachment Is Illegitimate","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There are at least ten reasons why the Democratic impeachment \u201cinquiry\u201d is a euphemism for an ongoing coup attempt. 1) Impeachment 24\/7.\u00a0The impeachment \u201cinquiry,\u201d supposedly prompted by the president\u2019s Ukrainian call, is simply the most recent in a long series of \u201ccoups\u201d that sought\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11768,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/all-the-progressive-plotters\/","url_meta":{"origin":12020,"position":5},"title":"All the Progressive Plotters","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein\u2014cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders\u2014sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the Electoral College. 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