Meet The New Coup, Same As The Old Coup

Almost overnight, the mainstream Democrat consensus has switched from believing that impeachment would be a political landmine to it being the only sensible choice. If recent history is any precedent, the Democrats - who only need a House majority - will vote to impeach.

This is all eerily similar to the coup attempt that just ended. Donald Trump's opponent was revealed to have committed crimes and engaged in widescale corruption (not to mention literally practicing Satanism) after three different sets of Democrat emails leaked to the public. The response of the powers that be - the media, the bureaucracies, the bulk of the elected officials - was to spin the leaks into the story of treason committed by an unfairly elected president, by somehow colluding with Russia.

Those who say the coup attempt failed are wrong. Sure, they certainly would have rather used the federal justice system to nullify the unauthorized election, but that was never really in the cards. Still, they managed to distract from the Democrat emails, to put the Trump administration on its heels, and to use the power of the state to intimidate and impoverish Trump allies. For years, the mainstream narrative was: Trump is a criminal. To date, no one has been imprisoned for the Democrat emails or for an illegal coup attempt from within the Department of Justice. In fact, the only jail terms given were to Trump allies for process crimes, such as getting a date wrong in sworn testimony.

So where are we today? Let's see, Trump's opponent is accused of engaging in corruption while in power, which Obama allowed to happen. Gee, that sounds familiar. And the same song and dance begins. The media now says it was Trump, not Biden, who engaged in corrupt dealings with Ukraine. It's the Saul Alinsky tactic: accuse your opponent of what you've done, to sow confusion. Because Trump has been accused of doing what Biden actually did, the House Democrats are now compelled to impeach, for the same reason they pursued a DOJ special counsel against Trump for years without any evidence for a crime that didn't happened. Their choice is either to let the media narrative drift towards the truth (the Democrats are extraordinarily corrupt and abuse their power) or they can again inject lies into the system and put Trump on his heels for the rest of his term. We've seen what happens when there isn't a Trump witch hunt in the works. Since the Russian collusion case collapsed, we've seen the Democrats fracture, with AOC calling Pelosi a racist and Trump managing to frame "the squad" as the leaders of the Democrat party, and many leftists condemning the Democrat front run for be insufficiently liberal (and too white). They really have little choice but to launch Trump Witch Hunt 2.0.

The cost will be unification of Republican support behind Trump, and an inflamed base that will turn out in 2020. Further, it will be the increased erosion of legitimacy of the federal government, but at this point there is so little left, it's probably a price worth paying. If Trump is re-elected, then they will just find new lies to distract the nation. If he loses, then they will regain their seats of power (all they care about), but they will also inherent a government with no credibility among most Americans. Ultimately, they may just be rats scrambling for the highest positions on a sinking ship.