Opinion: I fear we will look back in 50 years and see a deterioration of individual rights as a result of this presidency
The months-long impeachment process that ended Wednesday could feel like a blur of news and political theater all leading up to a foregone conclusion. Donald Trump is still the president. Americans’ confidence in the whole political process, whatever their party, is still dented. So what did we all just live through?
After his election in 2024, President Pompeo, regarded by most as lacking the charisma of his predecessor, struggled to command the attention and the affection of Trump’s supporters, who missed the style and the personality of the 45th president. Many of those supporters stayed at home on election night in 2024 and 2028. In 2028, enough stayed home to cost Pompeo the election.
The impeachment and subsequent acquittal by the Senate of Donald Trump in 2020 sounded the death knell of impeachment as a bulwark against an outlaw president. Impeachment has always been a blend of legal and political process. In Trump’s case, the political considerations obliterated the legal and constitutional framework.
The impeachment and acquittal of Trump in 2020 left the country’s political culture in spiraling decline. For the portion of the country’s politically engaged population that was not securely within the Fox News universe, the Trump acquittal demonstrated the sheer cravenness of the Republican Party.
In 2027, a movement for a new constitutional convention succeeded. The resulting constitutional amendments to eliminate the Electoral College and to reorganize the U.S. Senate into a more democratic institution just barely failed to pass in three quarters of state legislatures for approval.Allan J. Lichtman is a history professor and author ofThe evolving defense of their client by Trump’s lawyers threatened the foundation of the democratic republic.
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