Thread It’s true that GOP Senators putting party ahead of country, the rule of law, security of American elections against foreign influence, inter-branch accountability, & basic integrity are basically the Founders’ nightmare, violating their core sense of virtue in office. But.
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Impeachment— not only impeachment, but we’ll focus on that— isn’t well-designed for a system of parties. There’s never been a successful removal of a president— and that’s not because there were no presidents who should have been removed. 5
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It works OK for the removal of not-officially-partisan judges. But the executive is different. Nixon was chased out of office with the threat of removal, but under the very unusual circumstances that the GOP had been all but locked out of Congressional power for 40 years... 6
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*and* when the parties were still in their Jim-Crow-based cross-cutting ideological muddle— a situation unlikely to be repeated and based on conditions we wouldn’t *want* to see repeated. 7
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The Nixon case fooled us into thinking the impeachment procedure wasn’t basically broken, if only we had virtuous heroes in the Senate in the Goldwater mode... and so we get disappointed in the Lamar!s of the world for not living up to the Founders’ ideals. 8
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But that’s just not going to be a reliable mechanism for executive accountability in a world of parties. We need to think about what such a mechanism could be. /fun
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Ahem. "/fin." I don't need a special notation to mark the end of fun; I just need to be my usual spoilsport self.
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If they hadn't rushed to revolution, they'd have stayed with the UK until it evolved modern parliamentary government, a vast improvement over what they knew in colonial legislatures.
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I don’t think it’s at all clear that without the American Revolution things would have gone the way they did in the UK, though. Someone had to go first.
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Whenever DC statehood comes up, some pundit will confidently assert that small state senators would oppose it, regardless of party, because it would dilute the outsized sway they hold in the body. Except in the real world...
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If they were "wrong" about some important things could they also be "wrong" about some less important things like "republic", "electoral college", "two senators from each state" and "well regulated militia"?
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