The Democrats Enlist Elitist Leftist Eggheads to Make Their Case For Impeachment. Yeah, That’ll Play in Flyover Country. So Do Continue!

I haven’t written about the ongoing impeachment farce because, well, it’s so farcical. But events in the last few days deserve some comment.

First, the “Intelligence” Committee’s impeachment report. It reminds me of what one would expect a constipated man who binged on Ex Lax to produce. To summarize–and I think quite fairly–its central claims are that (a) it is an impeachable offense for the President to have policy differences with the bureaucracy that is Constitutionally subordinate to him, and (b) it is also impeachable for a politician to practice politics, if he is sufficiently loathed by the other political party.

Second, today’s hearings in the Judiciary Committee, which is more aptly named the Prejudicial Committee, because clearly the fix is in.

The “witnesses” in today’s proceeding were three hard left law professors (but I repeat myself) and one exception who proves the rule–Jonathan Turley, who though hardly conservative, isn’t a hard-core leftist. And of course he wasn’t asked any questions.

Several of the witnesses were literally prejudiced, having found grounds to impeach Trump within days of his taking office, for such things as tweets.

One witness, Stanford’s Pamela Karlan, especially debased herself by including Trump’s 13 year old son Barron into her diatribe. Karlan also said:

“Ukraine is on the front lines. They are fighting the Russians over there, so we don’t have to fight the Russians over here.”

That just cracks me up. Trump has so deranged the left that he has turned them into McCarthyite warmongers who see Russkies under every bed and think that Red Dawn is our future if we don’t defend the Donbas.

But as offensive as this display was, my cynical side says–More! Lots more! Please!

It is a testament to the cluelessness of the Democratic leadership in the House, and the governing class (the “elite”) generally, that they actually think that these people are going to play in Peoria, or anywhere outside of, say the Upper West Side, the Beltway, LA, and the Bay Area.

For one thing, most Americans don’t have a lot of respect for academics. Indeed, a lot of Americans despise academics. And as an academic, who has been in academia for 30+ years, I can say they have substantial justification for those beliefs.

It goes ten-fold for legal academics, who combine Americans’ disdain for academics with their loathing of lawyers. Or a three-fer, actually, because many Americans’ disgust with hard-core leftist partisans gets added to the mix.

Apparently the House Democrats believe that Americans will defer to the pronouncements of obviously partisan and prejudiced legal academics. This is quite frankly insane, and illustrates how out of touch those in the ruling class are. The Pamela Karlans of the world loom large in the salons of DC and NY and the Bay Area, but most Americans think they couldn’t screw in a lightbulb, and who would blame their failure on capitalist, patriarchal, racist, homophobic oppression. And they wouldn’t be far off in that judgment.

So, echoing Napoleon (or somebody!), far be it from me to interrupt an enemy when he is in the middle of making a mistake. And in trotting out leftist eggheads to make their impeachment case, the Democrats are definitely making a huge mistake.

So please . . . don’t let me interrupt you!