Matt Treacy on Donald Trump winning his impeachment case. 



The reaction of the liberal left to the Senate’s rejection of the Democratic attempt to impeach President Trump has bordered on hysteria. The claims that it contained misogyny and racism are absurd. The liberal twitter interpreting of what he said belong in the realm of the deconstructionist nonsense with which they have infected academia. One claimed that Trump had somehow insulted Congressman Jim Jordan by referring to his ears.

His speech following the vote has been described as “unhinged.” What was unhinged was the attempt of the Democrats to prevent his re-election through under-handed means. Trump referred to the “dirty cops” campaign to discredit him. That involved allegations about the influence of Putin on the election in 2016. All found to be baseless.

So in reality, what took place was an attempt by the Democrats to both subvert the last election and to pre-empt the next one through lies and manipulation of their holdovers in the state apparatus. This is the party of the Clintons whose careers would make any Netflix series like Ozarks seem like an episode of Glenroe.

Trump pulled no punches. He accused the Democrats of having falsified documents and engaging in “crooked politics.” His main point and the one that will see him re-elected was about their support for “open borders and sanctuary cities.” That along with the fact that the American economy is enjoying a major upturn. And despite the left’s depiction of him as a war monger he is the first President since the 1940s not to have engaged the US in a war. Walk softly but carry a big stick.

More personally he described the Democrats as “vicious people” and Nancy Pelosi who tore his speech up as a “horrible person.” This is not politics as we know it. The great American conservative writer Wendell Berry once said that there was no difference between the Republican and Democrat elite. That both were basically on the same side. Trump seems to have shifted that paradigm.


Matt Treacy is a writer and a former republican prisoner.
Keep up with Matt Treacy @ Gript.

Trump’s Impeachment Victory Speech Continues His Upending Of Political Consensus

Matt Treacy on Donald Trump winning his impeachment case. 



The reaction of the liberal left to the Senate’s rejection of the Democratic attempt to impeach President Trump has bordered on hysteria. The claims that it contained misogyny and racism are absurd. The liberal twitter interpreting of what he said belong in the realm of the deconstructionist nonsense with which they have infected academia. One claimed that Trump had somehow insulted Congressman Jim Jordan by referring to his ears.

His speech following the vote has been described as “unhinged.” What was unhinged was the attempt of the Democrats to prevent his re-election through under-handed means. Trump referred to the “dirty cops” campaign to discredit him. That involved allegations about the influence of Putin on the election in 2016. All found to be baseless.

So in reality, what took place was an attempt by the Democrats to both subvert the last election and to pre-empt the next one through lies and manipulation of their holdovers in the state apparatus. This is the party of the Clintons whose careers would make any Netflix series like Ozarks seem like an episode of Glenroe.

Trump pulled no punches. He accused the Democrats of having falsified documents and engaging in “crooked politics.” His main point and the one that will see him re-elected was about their support for “open borders and sanctuary cities.” That along with the fact that the American economy is enjoying a major upturn. And despite the left’s depiction of him as a war monger he is the first President since the 1940s not to have engaged the US in a war. Walk softly but carry a big stick.

More personally he described the Democrats as “vicious people” and Nancy Pelosi who tore his speech up as a “horrible person.” This is not politics as we know it. The great American conservative writer Wendell Berry once said that there was no difference between the Republican and Democrat elite. That both were basically on the same side. Trump seems to have shifted that paradigm.


Matt Treacy is a writer and a former republican prisoner.
Keep up with Matt Treacy @ Gript.

3 comments:

  1. Matt

    I credited you with being less deluded than this article suggests -Trump trips himself up so ofetn on his own lies 'you wouldn't believe'. Even more scary than before he has lied to, or misled his own supporters, about the coronavirus --many of whom would be considered to be among the most vulnerable group susceptible to its worst effects.

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  2. This is easily one of the most absurd things I've ever read on The Pensive Quill. I'm a moderate American who has lived through three years of Trump, forced like millions in this nation to endure the kind of drivel trotted out here by FOX and the mouth breathing MAGA base.

    Trump was impeached because he violated the Constitution by withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in return for an announcement that Ukraine was opening up an investigation into Hunter and Joe Biden, Trump's then likely rival in 2020's presidential election. It could not be more straightforward than that. Trump's clumsy gambit was an abuse of power, an attempt to shakedown a foreign nation in pursuit of personal advantage. Trump then obstructed justice on numerous occasions. That's also an impeachable offense.

    The trial in the Senate, conducted by my Senator from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, was not a trial: no witnesses were called and no evidence of the aforementioned violations was produced. The outcome was of no surprise to those of us who closely followed the impeachment proceedings. Did Pelosi have to pursue the impeachment process? You're damn right she did. A failure to do so would have established a precedent, a kind of latent virus, giving carte blanche to the variety of corruption and election tampering indulged in by the most corrupt president in the entire history of the United States. Our nation is an imperfect republic, one bathed in blood and shortcomings, but it's also a republic governed by a constitution that limits the powers of the executive branch, a constitution designed to check tyrants and dictators and pathological liars.

    One last note: the American economy is tanking, obviously, and there is no doubt that Putin and the Russians tampered with the 2016 presidential election.

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  3. "One last note: the American economy is tanking, obviously, and there is no doubt that Putin and the Russians tampered with the 2016 presidential election."

    Rubbish. Deluded rubbish. If you want to point the finger at who tampers with election and 'democracy' look no further than Israel.

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