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Feb. 10, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
08:22
Why The Impeachment Trial Could Backfire on Dems
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There's an article in the Wall Street Journal, The Political Logic of the Trump Trial, by someone I'm not familiar with, the Professor Emeritus Political Science University of Chicago.
He's very good.
So he says, I read the first half, I'll read the second half out loud.
In other words, I will broadcast it.
So, they have nothing to lose, and it keeps their base, because they're the...
Democrats are most energized by hatred of Donald Trump.
That's what they most hate.
So it's like a free lunch for the Democrats.
That's his argument.
And it divides Republicans.
That's what they think will happen.
Okay.
So then he writes, and I haven't read this yet.
The Democrats may end up paying a higher political price than they anticipate.
The trial won't only delay Mr. Biden's programs, it will tarnish his image as a unifier, eager to work across party lines.
Tarnish?
He has to be kidding.
Tarnish?
That's like totaling your car and saying I tarnished my car.
Okay, I continue.
That identity will be much harder to sustain after Democratic senators vote in lockstep to convict Mr. Trump and push through a mammoth COVID relief bill without any Republican votes.
You know where billions of that are going?
Tens of billions?
To states.
To bail them out.
Democratic states.
To bail them out of their terrible overspending.
It's so corrupt, this $1.9 trillion thing.
The leaving of this debt to their children.
They care about children on the left like the communists cared about workers.
Look at how they won't go to school.
The leftist teachers unions won't open up schools.
Kids have been out of school for a year.
For no good reason!
Teachers are cowards and leftists.
Are there exceptions?
Of course.
There are exceptions.
Like basketball players are tall.
Are there exceptions?
Yes, there are.
But it's fair to generalize.
Unfortunately, certainly in the urban areas of this country, teachers are a combination of cowards and leftists.
I'm sorry, it's a fact.
Not to teach children for a year?
Damn you.
And why you keep your kids in schools, knowing now the contempt that teachers have for your children, why you continue to send them to the schools, there's only one reason, and I understand it.
Convenience.
That's the only reason people keep their children in school, and it's not a compelling one.
It's powerful, but it shouldn't be decisive.
Get them the hell out of these indoctrination sessions.
With cowards.
Teachers should be running into classrooms, not running out of classrooms.
so they don't care continue This article in the Wall Street Journal.
With all or almost all Democrat...
Democrats supporting Mr. Trump's conviction, the president will be pressed to declare his position.
That is Biden.
Whether Mr. Biden speaks out or not, he signaled his position when he refused to dissuade Mrs. Pelosi from transmitting the House's articles of impeachment to the Senate.
The Speaker wouldn't have done so over the new president's opposition.
As the trial unfolds, Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who has begged off from presiding over the trial, will try to keep a low profile while avoiding any criticism of this party-line effort to denounce and convict Mr. Trump.
That tacit approval will be universally applauded by Democrats and their media allies.
But it leaves Mr. Biden...
Facing backward, avenging grievances from the Trump years, not forward, advancing his own program.
Partisan revenge is hard to reconcile with bipartisan restoration.
Joe Biden and the Democrats surely understand these costs, but will pay them anyway.
Because they expect to impose far higher ones on the Republicans.
That political logic drives the impeachment trial.
It is astonishing to me that there will be Republicans that vote to impeach, but obviously not enough.
It won't happen.
They have now twice raped, and I use that term, I don't know a better term.
I hate using it, but they have raped impeachment of its meaning.
It has become a political tool when you don't like the president.
That's all it is.
Okay?
Let's understand that.
And unfortunately, I believe that the Republicans should use it as well.
If they get a...
There is so much they can show about Biden and his corruption with China, that that alone, they have far more evidence for his corruption with China than the Democrats had with corruption vis-a-vis Russia.
And they went on with an investigation.
I really don't know how you don't respond to the left.
With their tactics.
I don't know.
I wish there were a way.
But I can't think of one offhand.
You have decided to demolish our foundations in the rubble as we try to reconstruct our country.
We will, however, bring whatever we need to bear with regard to you.
David...
Is that Ciccolini?
So he's now speaking.
They're talking about how he incited the insurrection.
There was no insurrection, so you can't incite what didn't happen.
Do you realize in a world of truth how many comments of democratic politicians could be shown on the screen as examples of inciting people?
It was all incitement.
All the demonstrations against systemic racism was incitement by those who say the country is systemically racist.
That's incitement.
This country is not systemically racist.
You say it's a lie that the election was stolen?
It is a lie that the country is systemically racist.
With the difference, however, if let's say they're both lies, the lie of systemic racism has caused far more damage in this country than the lie of stolen election.
We'll be back.
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