Make that three. As you must already know, yesterday Donald Trump became just the third president in American history, after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998, to be impeached, and the first Republican one to be impeached. This was for abusing power and obstructing Congress; the House of Representatives votes for those charges were respectively 230 for and 197 against, and 229 for and 198 against.
Personally, I'm very happy about this because I despise Trump and his policies. But I digress; whatever you think of him and his politics, it is now proven that he violated democracy by hijacking his way into office, and national office at that. That is no way any fair-minded person or group would want to succeed, and certainly not if they want to represent their nation, as its leader, on the global stage.
Now I concede that Clinton, a Democrat, was also impeached for obstructing something (justice). He should never have had his affair or lied under oath about having had it, but those misdemeanours pale, in my mind, alongside Trump's. He clearly wanted to attain and keep power by absolutely any means, and now having been exposed, his days in the Oval Office could be numbered. (Andrew Johnson, by the way, was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act.)
I greatly hope they are, yet as his Republican Party controls the Senate where he will face a trial to remove him from office in 2020 (also an election year), I am hoping against hope. But if he survives that trial, I sincerely hope the American people will have the wisdom and conscientiousness to ensure he doesn't survive next November.
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