Suppose that a president engages in certain actions that seem to you very, very bad. Suppose that you are tempted to think that he should be impeached. You should immediately ask yourself: Would I think the same thing if I loved the president’s policies, and thought that he was otherwise doing a splendid job? That’s a good way of ensuring the requisite neutrality. The impeachment mechanism isn’t a way for political losers to overturn the outcome of a legitimate election. Nor is it a way for the public to say: Our leader is doing a rotten job. Put differently, loathing a president is not
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