Thursday, June 13, 2019

"A Hand-Forcing Move"

"Yoni Appelbaum argued in an important cover story for The Atlantic in favor of opening an impeachment inquiry into the president. I worried some weeks later on this site about the political and institutional risks of proceeding down that path. But Trump himself gets a vote; Trump himself forces the hands even of those who might wish to restrain the hands. He is such an institution-wrecker—his instincts are so lawless—that he may simply refuse to allow Congress not to impeach him."

David Frum at The Atlantic reacts to Donald Trump's "willingness to collaborate with foreign spies against his domestic political opponents."

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