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Wednesday October 2nd, 2019 by Douglas Wilson. Introduction

So I posted a meme the other day promising to follow it up with an article explaining myself and so so here I am, in fulfillment of my word.

In what I write about this, please try to cast me in your mind's eye, as a disinterested

commentator on public affairs as an objective analyst

and not as an engaged or bitter partisan.

That said, however, I am the kind of objective analyst who might from time to time lace his fingers across his

tummy and shake with quiet bemused laughter.

I am going to do my level best to stay out of the weeds and just concentrate on the politics of the thing.

And it is important to remember that this thing is all politics, all the way through and

all the way through and all the way down.

A brief civics lesson.

When a president is impeached, this means that he has been indicted.

It does not mean that he has been tried, and it does not mean that he has been indicted. It does not mean that he has been tried and it does not

mean that he has been found guilty. It means that he has been indicted and that there

is going to be a trial. In the history of the United States, there have been two presidents who have been impeached. They were Andrew Johnson in the aftermath of the Civil War in 1868, and Bill Clinton in 1999.

Both presidents survived their trials and remained in office.

Richard Nixon under the threat of impeachment

resigned his office in 1974.

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