Impeach Trump: Now


The Democrats should be moving full speed ahead on impeaching the president. This is the moment where, historically, Democrats have chosen to take the sensible, well-thought out, reactionary way forward, when what was needed was for them to grab ahold of the narrative and shape it to THEIR will. We don’t need to wait and contemplate while hoping the unredacted version of the Mueller Report gets released soon (we’ve seen enough already).


What Trump does so well is to set the framing of the narrative. For instance, when he repeatedly made his racist birther claims about President Obama, Trump introduced a frame, a worldview, that included the possibility of Obama not being an American citizen. The narrative within that frame, whether for or against, necessarily included discussion of Obama’s citizenship, a topic we’d never addressed before in reference to a sitting president. It didn’t matter that his birtherism claims weren’t true, they became a part of the narrative, the discussion… “within the realm of possibility”.


Now is the time for the Democrats to drive the narrative around this president and his actions. And, in doing so, create the appropriate expectations going forward. Don’t sit back and wait for the perfect case, when what we’ve already seen is more than sufficient to act on. Begin impeachment proceedings now and be the creators of the frame, of the narrative, that includes an impeached President Trump. Support the worldview that reinforces the idea that no one is above the law.  
The Democrats shouldn’t concern themselves with possible reactions from Trump’s base. Their reaction will be the same no matter what the Democrats do:  hyperbolic, fear-based, fact-free. What’s important now is that the Democrats reward their base that turned out huge in 2018 to wrestle back control of the House. That blue wave happened for a reason, so there could be push back against this administration. Stop waiting for a “sign from God” before impeaching Trump. The signs were sent in 2018. The pathway was laid out in Mueller’s report.


Frame the narrative: “Trump should be impeached”
Drive the conversation: “No one is above the law”

Impeach Trump: Now

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