As bad as the Capitol riots were, impeachment would send no message other than score-settling
As the hourglass runs out on his administration in the shadow of the Capitol riots last week, President Trump’s position is uncannily similar to when he rode the Trump Tower elevator down in 2015. He’s hated by Democrats, abandoned by many Congressional Republicans, but still revered by his base.
Just one thing has changed: Days before leaving office, he’s about to be impeached for a record second time.
The sight of MAGA supporters overrunning Congress last week shocked many who had voted for the president in November. As I wrote in the immediate aftermath, there was a straight line between the president’s false claims of millions of votes untraceably switched, to the rabble rioting in the seat of US democracy. And there’s nothing more dangerous for Jewish communities, or America at large, than widespread delegitimization of authority.
But the bottom line is that the impeachment shouldn’t go ahead. That’s because this particular Democratic-controlled House has zero moral authority to impeach this specific president.
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