{"id":9079,"date":"2019-11-24T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T14:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2019-11-24T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T15:11:10","slug":"michael-anton-analyzes-the-impeachment-strategy-and-summarizes-the-possible-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/24\/michael-anton-analyzes-the-impeachment-strategy-and-summarizes-the-possible-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Anton Analyzes the Impeachment Strategy and Summarizes the Possible Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his sixty two hundred (!) word essay \u201cThe Empire Strikes Back<\/a>\u201d Michael Anton narrates the Deep State and Democrat controlled Media\u2019s Ukraine-gate maneuver and how it\u2019s supposed to justify impeachment and removal of President Trump.\u00a0 Suffice it to say it is ponderous to read through the machinations they are going through to justify their treason and depressing to realize what nakedly illegal practices of their own they are trying to protect with the smokescreen of impeachment.\u00a0 The Deep State and the Elites feed from the trough of federal spending that is funneled to lawless countries like the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t attempt to even summarize his essay.\u00a0 If you have an interest in these matters, which I do, you might read it.\u00a0 But I\u2019d like to quote some ideas from his conclusion.\u00a0 Anton thinks that it is unlikely that even the craven Senate Republicans would be stupid enough to convict the President.\u00a0 But if they did, he had this to say about the consequences:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it might. It worked against Nixon. It almost worked against Reagan. But let\u2019s be clear: if it works this time, there are only three possible outcomes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

First, deplorable-Americans will meekly accept President Trump\u2019s removal, in which case the country as a self-governing republic will be finished; the elite coup will have succeeded, their grip on power cemented. With all due respect to the vice president, this is not the way\u2014these are not the people on the backs of whom\u2014he should wish to enter the Oval Office. And I am confident he will not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second, deplorable-Americans will revolt at the ballot box and punish the elites in a series of elections that put in power serious statesmen intent on rooting out corruption and reestablishing democratic accountability.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or, third, deplorable-Americans\u2019 attempt to set their government aright via ballots will not avail, as it has not so often in the past; they will realize that it has not, conclude that it never will, and resolve by any means necessary to get out from under the thumbs of people who so obviously hate them and wish to rule them without their consent<\/u>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That third outcome is the Dissident Right\u2019s refrain, \u201cwe can\u2019t vote our way out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as to the outcome for the Senate Republicans if they did convict the President:<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, and let\u2019s also be clear about something else: if the Republicans \u201ccollude\u201d with this sham and force the removal of a president whose approval rating within his party hovers north of 90%, and whose voters scarcely understand\u2014much less agree with\u2014the \u201ccase\u201d against him, they will destroy the party forever<\/u>. I don\u2019t often make predictions, because I\u2019m not good at it, but this one is easy. They will have removed all doubt that they are anything but ruling class apparatchiks, adjuncts, and flunkies of the administrative state from which they take orders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And let none of them dare gaslight us with the trite dismissal that Trump’s removal would not overturn the 2016 election results because the president’s replacement was also elected. Trump’s intraparty enemies hate him, and wish to be rid of him, precisely because he is not one of them, because he stands for, and represents, something fundamentally different. Getting rid of him is, for them, a way to get back to business as usual. But there is no going back. A few of them in safely anti-Trump states or districts may survive the president\u2019s removal but the vast majority will not. A new party\u2014a Trumpian populist-nationalist party\u2014will arise from the Republican Party\u2019s ashes.<\/u> More blue-collar in economic orientation and less in hock to coastal and financial elites, it will do a better job of attracting Democrats and independents\u2014possibly pointing the way to the first real national majority coalition since the Reagan era. And that new party will not welcome the traitors, who will have to make do with contributorships on CNN and MSNBC. Assuming any slots are available.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This assessment seems quite likely.\u00a0 And the Senator I\u2019d most enjoy seeing bounced out of his seat is Mitt Romney.\u00a0 I would hope that Utah would enact a recall law specifically to remove him if he were stupid enough to aid in the removal of a popular president.\u00a0 In fact, even if the conviction is unsuccessful, if Romney votes for it, I hope the people of his state remove him for that alone.<\/p>\n

Anton worked for the Trump White House in addition to being an academic.\u00a0 He is almost uniquely positioned to discuss the reality of our present situation.\u00a0 What I find interesting is that even a mainstream and serious commentator such as Anton is now pointing to the apocalyptic realities of what would happen if the Uni-party Establishment decides they can overturn the 2016 election results by removing a popular president.\u00a0 What that tells me is that the intelligentsia on the actual right has reached the same boiling point as the rest of us.\u00a0 When a policy wonk joins the Deplorables it won\u2019t be long before the pitchforks and the torches start showing up on the scene.<\/p>\n

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