President Trump’s political opponents have called him cruel and authoritarian and dictatorial. They have accused him of rewriting the Constitution and trampling on basic rules of government. One thing missing in the early vitriol over Mr.
Trump’s first 10 days is the I-word. For the first time in his political career, Mr. Trump sits in the White House without a serious threat of impeachment hanging over him.
No members have rushed to file articles of impeachment, and no senators are thundering about it from the chamber floor. The usual leftist activists were vociferous in their criticism of the new president but are now barely rumbling and focusing more on resistance than removal. “Our focus is going to be on how do we fight back,” Rep.
James McGovern, Massachusetts Democrat, told The Washington Times. “We’re not talking about impeachment, and we’re not talking about anything like that. We’re talking about how we stop his right-wing agenda and how we stop his undermining of our democracy.
” Mr. Trump is the first president to be impeached twice: first for efforts to withhold security assistance money from Ukraine in 2019 and then for the events surrounding the 2020 election and certification of the results. Impeachment loomed large since his first day in office in 2017 when liberal activists launched ImpeachDonaldTrumpNow.
org just after his swearing-in. “The effort to impeach President Donald John Trump is already underway,” The Washington Post declared t.
