The Case for Impeachment by Allan J. Lichtman

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By now, we are all a little bit more informed about impeachment than we were when this book was written in 2017. I don't know about you but way back then (when I first read this) I wasn't even aware that the process of impeachment began in the House of Represenatives. And I'm willing to bet that there's still a ton about the process that you don't know—for example: did you that a president can be impeached and removed from office for things they did before being elected?

You'll learn a lot more than that by reading this surprisingly easy to read book. You may even find it amusing to read about how Trump crossed the line into impeachable offenses way back in his first 100 days in office, concidering how terribly far over that that line we've come.

While Trump is certianly the focus of this book, this isn't really a book about him. This is a book about the process of impeachment itself which uses Trump (and Nixon) as examples.

Here's a sample to show you how little the American political discourse has changed in 220 years:

"In the election of 1800, after one of the nastiest campaigns in U.S. history, the nation experienced its first political upheaval when the Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated the Federalist incumbent president John Adams. Federalists attacked Jefferson for his alleged atheism, radicalism, and lack of moral standards. One propagandist warned that with Jefferson as president, “murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes.” The Jeffersonians fought back, charging Adams with scheming to extinguish the republic by marrying one of his sons to the daughter of the King of England and reestablishing British rule over America."

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On the podcast this week I debated the value of grouping people via generalities.