Why Trump Won — Failed to Impeach

I kept waiting for it in Trump’s second impeachment trial and it never came. It was an itch that wanted to be scratched that never manifested. There was no smoking gun that definitively linked Trump to the failed Coup at the Capital.

By the numbers:

The Dems were naïve in their attempt to convict Trump on the failed coup:

1. They used a polite (or obscure) word to describe the attempted coup: insurrection.

2. They did not try Trump on the all evidence leading up to the final attempted coup.

3. They focused solely on the attack on the Capital without solidly incriminating evidence linking Trump to the attackers (I fancy myself thinking with the specificity of a lawyer here).

4. They ignored the smoking gun of Trump’s recorded voice telling the Georgia’s Secretary of State to find votes by throwing out votes for Biden for Trump’s re-election.

Trump broadcast what he would do if he believed that he wouldn’t win the election:

1. He talked about being President for Life (a dictatorial fantasy) — He did.

2. He would call the election stolen — He did.

3. He supported dead people voting in the election as a huge problem when it wasn’t despite his Republican enablers using voter suppression laws to limit voting by blacks and minorities.

4. He would repeated call the election stolen (as if repeating it would make it true and for many it did)– He did.

5. He would call all vote by mail fraudulent — He did.

6. He would call all mail unreliable (because he planned it that way deliberately) — He did.

7. He made sure that the USPS would not get any bailout money for the effects of COVID19 — He did.

8. He stuffed the Board of Governors to a appoint a shill to the Post Office that would disrupt all mail, especially mail-in ballots — He did.

9. He repeatedly used the courts to frivolously challenge election results based on lies — He did.

10. He attempted to use his office to get Georgia’s Secretary of State to throw the election in his favor — He did.

11. He used emotional fury and “fight like hell” to state that he wanted what the Coup attackers wanted and were one in the same even though there was questionable wiggle room

These actions and statements are much more incriminating when taken together as evidence of a Coup, but the Dems ignored that for media coverage without the smoking-gun linkage of Trump inciting the attackers to “kill” members of Congress, for example. “Fight like hell” has wiggle room with regard to interpretation. That’s why Trump was not impeached.

The Democrats try to act honorably and assume their Republican colleagues will act in the same manner. Republicans consider Democrats moral high ground to be superior — and insulting — therefore they treat it as nonsense and use whatever they can get to win at all costs.

What Now?

We must work to save democracy from authoritarians out to squash democracy and ruin our nation. Here are two means of support in that direction:

Support efforts for the Georgia Courts investigation of election tampering.

Find all Senators that voted against impeachment and ensure that they are defeated in their next election for the Senate.